34:9 Edom’s 1 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; 2
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 3 will live there, 4
all kinds of wild birds 5 will settle in it.
The Lord 6 will stretch out over her
the measuring line of ruin
and the plumb line 7 of destruction. 8
34:12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom
and all her officials will disappear. 9
34:13 Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns;
thickets and weeds will grow 10 in her fortified cities.
Jackals will settle there;
ostriches will live there. 11
34:14 Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; 12
wild goats will bleat to one another. 13
Yes, nocturnal animals 14 will rest there
and make for themselves a nest. 15
34:15 Owls 16 will make nests and lay eggs 17 there;
they will hatch them and protect them. 18
Yes, hawks 19 will gather there,
each with its mate.
34:16 Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! 20
Not one of these creatures will be missing, 21
none will lack a mate. 22
For the Lord has issued the decree, 23
and his own spirit gathers them. 24
34:17 He assigns them their allotment; 25
he measures out their assigned place. 26
They will live there 27 permanently;
they will settle in it through successive generations.