Isa 34, 63:1-6, Jer 25:15-29, 49:12, Eze 25:12-14, 35:3-9 | ESV | STEP | Draw near , O nations , to hear , and give attention , O peoples ! Let the earth hear , and all that fills it; the world , and all that comes from it.

1 Draw near, ^aO nations, to hear,
and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
the world, and all that comes from it.
2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has ^bdevoted them to destruction, ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5} has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and ^dthe stench of their corpses shall rise;
^ethe mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 ^fAll the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon ^gEdom,
upon the people ^hI have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
ⁱFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 ^jWild oxen shall ^kfall with them,
and ^lyoung steers with ^mthe mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
8 ⁿFor the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 ^oAnd the streams of Edom ^{▼▼Hebrew her streams} shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day ^qit shall not be quenched;
^rits smoke shall go up forever.
^sFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 ^tBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^vHe shall stretch the line of ^wconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 ^yThorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^zjackals,
an abode for ostriches. ^{▼▼Or owls}
14 ^abAnd wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there ^adthe hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 ^aeHe has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Isaiah 63:1-6

The Lord’s Day of Vengeance

1 Who is this who comes from ^afEdom,
in crimsoned garments from ^agBozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
^ahmarching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
2 Why is your ^aiapparel red,
and your garments like his ^ajwho treads in the winepress?
3 ^ak“I have trodden the winepress alone,
^aland from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood ^{▼▼Or their juice; also verse 6} spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
4 ^anFor the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption ^{▼▼Or the year of my redeemed} had come.
5 I looked, but ^apthere was no one to help;
I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
and my wrath upheld me.
6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
^aqI made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

Jeremiah 25:15-29

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

15 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ^ar“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of ^asthe sword that I am sending among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, ^atand made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 ^auJerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^avto make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19 ^awPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 20 and ^axall the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ^aythe land of Uz and all the kings of ^azthe land of the Philistines ( ^baAshkelon, ^bbGaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^bcAshdod); 21 ^bdEdom, ^beMoab, and the sons of ^bfAmmon; 22 all the kings of ^bgTyre, all the kings of ^bhSidon, and the kings of the coastland across ^bithe sea; 23 ^bjDedan, ^bkTema, ^blBuz, and all who cut ^bmthe corners of their hair; 24 all the ^bnkings of Arabia and all the kings of ^bothe mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^bpElam, and all the kings of ^bqMedia; 26 all the kings of ^brthe north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of ^bsBabylon ^{▼▼Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon} shall drink.

27 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^buDrink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of ^bvthe sword that I am sending among you.’

28 “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^bwYou must drink! 29 For behold, ^bxI begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, ^byfor I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’

Jeremiah 49:12

12 For thus says the Lord: ^bz“If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, ^cawill you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.

Ezekiel 25:12-14

Prophecy Against Edom

12 “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^cbEdom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended ^ccin taking vengeance on them, 13 therefore thus says the Lord God, ^cdI will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from ^ceTeman even to ^cfDedan they shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom ^cgby the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and ^chthey shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:3-9

3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: ^ciBehold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and ^cjI will stretch out my hand against you, ^ckand I will make you a desolation and a waste. 4 ^clI will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 5 Because ^cmyou cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword ^cnat the time of their calamity, ^coat the time of their final punishment, 6 therefore, ^cpas I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; ^cqbecause you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7 ^crI will make Mount Seir a waste ^csand a desolation, and I will cut off from it ^ctall who come and go. 8 And I will fill ^cuits mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all ^cvyour ravines ^cwthose slain with the sword shall fall. 9 ^cxI will make you a perpetual desolation, and ^cyyour cities shall not be inhabited. Then ^czyou will know that I am the Lord.