1Draw near, O ye nations, and hear! Attend, O ye people! Let the earth hear, and all that is therein; The world, and all that springs from it!

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1 Corinthians 10:26, Isaiah 43:9, Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 41:1, 1 Corinthians 10:26

2For the wrath of Jehovah is kindled against all the nations, And his fury against all their armies; He hath devoted them to destruction; He hath given them up to slaughter.

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Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:29, Zephaniah 3:8, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:29

3Their slain shall be cast out; From their carcasses their stench shall ascend, And the mountains shall flow down with their blood.

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Joel 2:20, Joel 2:20, Ezekiel 39:4, Isaiah 34:7, Ezekiel 39:4

4And all the hosts of heaven shall melt away; And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, And all their host shall fall down, As the withered leaf faileth from the vine, As the blighted fruit from the fig-tree.

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Revelation 6:13, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 6:13, Revelation 6:14, Matthew 24:29

5For my sword hath become drunk in heaven; Behold, upon Edom shall it descend, Upon the people under my curse, for vengeance.

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Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 46:10, Malachi 1:4, Isaiah 63:1, Amos 1:11

6The sword of Jehovah is full of blood; It is covered with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams; For Jehovah holdeth a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:1, Jeremiah 49:13, Jeremiah 49:13, Deuteronomy 32:14

7The wild buffaloes shall fall down with them. And the bullocks with the bulls; The hind shall be drunk with blood, And the ground enriched with fat.

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Numbers 23:22, Psalms 68:30, Numbers 23:22, Psalms 68:30, Jeremiah 50:27

8For Jehovah holdeth a day of vengeance, A year of recompense in the cause of Zion.

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Isaiah 63:4, Isaiah 63:4, Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 61:2, Psalms 94:1

9Her streams shall be turned into pitch, And her dust into brimstone, And her whole land shall become burning pitch.

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Deuteronomy 29:23, Deuteronomy 29:23, Psalms 11:6, Psalms 11:6, Jude 1:7

10Day and night it shall not be quenched; Its smoke shall ascend forever; From generation to generation it shall lie waste; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.

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Revelation 19:3, Revelation 19:3, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4, Isaiah 13:20

11The pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; The heron and the raven shall dwell in it; Over it will he draw the measuring-line of destruction. And the plummet of desolation.

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2 Kings 21:13, Lamentations 2:8, 2 Kings 21:13, Lamentations 2:8, Zephaniah 2:14

12Her nobles—none are there, who may proclaim a kingdom, And all her princes have come to naught.

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Isaiah 3:6, Isaiah 3:8, Isaiah 3:6, Isaiah 3:8, Ecclesiastes 10:16

13Thorns shall spring up in her palaces; Nettles and thistles in her strongholds. She shall become a habitation for jackals, A court for ostriches.

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Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 10:22, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 10:22, Malachi 1:3

14The wild-cats shall fall upon the wolves, And the satyr shall call to his fellow; There also shall the night-spectre light, And find a place of rest.

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Isaiah 13:21, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 13:21, Isaiah 13:22

15There also shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay her eggs; She shall hatch them, and gather her young under her shadow: There also shall the vultures be gathered together, Every one with her mate.

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Deuteronomy 14:13, Deuteronomy 14:13

16Search ye the book of Jehovah, and read! Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall want her mate; For His mouth, it shall command, And His spirit, it shall gather them.

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Psalms 33:9, Psalms 33:9, Joshua 1:8, Joshua 1:8, Matthew 5:18

17He shall cast the lot for them; His hand shall divide it for them with a line; They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

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Isaiah 34:10, Isaiah 34:10, Acts 17:26, Acts 17:26, Joshua 18:8