Isaiah 34:5-7

Contemporary English Version

Trouble for Edom

⁵^(A) After the sword of the Lord
has done what it wants
to the skies above,^[a]
it will come down on Edom,
the nation that the Lord
has doomed for destruction.

⁶The sword of the Lord
is covered with blood
    from lambs and goats,
together with fat
    from kidneys of rams.
This is because the Lord
    will slaughter many people
and make a sacrifice of them
    in the city of Bozrah
and everywhere else
    in Edom.
⁷Edom's leaders are wild oxen.
They are powerful bulls,
    but they will die
    with the others.
Their country will be soaked
    with their own blood,
and its soil made fertile
    with their own fat.