10:7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long 1 will this man be a menace 2 to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know 3 that Egypt is destroyed?”
20:1 The Lord instructed Joshua:
20:1 The Lord instructed Joshua:
24:1 Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth
and leave it in ruins;
he will mar its surface
and scatter its inhabitants.
34:2 For the Lord is angry at all the nations
and furious with all their armies.
He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, 19
their corpses will stink; 20
the hills will soak up their blood. 21
34:4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, 22
the sky will roll up like a scroll;
all its stars will wither,
like a leaf withers and falls from a vine
or a fig withers and falls from a tree. 23
34:5 He says, 24 “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. 25
Look, it now descends on Edom, 26
on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”
34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,
it is covered 27 with fat;
it drips 28 with the blood of young rams and goats
and is covered 29 with the fat of rams’ kidneys.
For the Lord is holding a sacrifice 30 in Bozrah, 31
a bloody 32 slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered 33 along with them,
as well as strong bulls. 34
Their land is drenched with blood,
their soil is covered with fat.
34:8 For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, 35
a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion. 36
34:9 Edom’s 37 streams will be turned into pitch
and her soil into brimstone;
her land will become burning pitch.
34:10 Night and day it will burn; 38
its smoke will ascend continually.
Generation after generation it will be a wasteland
and no one will ever pass through it again.
34:11 Owls and wild animals 39 will live there, 40
all kinds of wild birds 41 will settle in it.
The Lord 42 will stretch out over her
the measuring line of ruin
and the plumb line 43 of destruction. 44
34:12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom
and all her officials will disappear. 45
34:13 Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns;
thickets and weeds will grow 46 in her fortified cities.
Jackals will settle there;
ostriches will live there. 47
34:14 Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; 48
wild goats will bleat to one another. 49
Yes, nocturnal animals 50 will rest there
and make for themselves a nest. 51
34:15 Owls 52 will make nests and lay eggs 53 there;
they will hatch them and protect them. 54
Yes, hawks 55 will gather there,
each with its mate.
34:16 Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! 56
Not one of these creatures will be missing, 57
none will lack a mate. 58
For the Lord has issued the decree, 59
and his own spirit gathers them. 60
34:17 He assigns them their allotment; 61
he measures out their assigned place. 62
They will live there 63 permanently;
they will settle in it through successive generations.