Bible Verses About The Edomites: Utter desolation of their country

Its streams will be changed to tar, its dust to sulfur, its land burning tar

that will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. In all generations it will lie waste; no one will pass through it ever again.

Horned owl and hawk will possess it, screech owl and raven will live there; he will stretch over it the measuring line of confusion and the plumbline of the empty void.

Of its nobles, none will be called to be king, and all its princes will be nothing.

Thorns will overgrow its palaces, nettles and thistles its fortresses; it will become a lair for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

Wildcats and hyenas will meet there; and billy-goats call to each other; Lilit [the night monster] will lurk there and find herself a place to rest.

There the hoot owl will nest, lay her eggs, hatch and gather her young in its shade. There the vultures will assemble, every one with its mate.

Consult the book of ADONAI and read it: not one of these will be missing, none will be lacking a mate. For by his own mouth he gave the order, and by his Spirit he brought them together.

It is he who cast the lot for them, his hand measured out their shares. They will possess it forever, and live there through all generations.

Yes, I will make Mount Se'ir utterly desolate, cutting off from it anyone passing through or returning.

I will fill his mountains with his slain; in your hills and valleys and in all your ravines will fall those slain by the sword.

I will turn you into perpetual ruins; your cities will not return; and you will know that I am ADONAI.

"'Because you say, "These two nations, these two countries, will be mine; we will take possession of them," even though ADONAI is there;

therefore, as I live,' swears Adonai ELOHIM, 'I will deal with you as your anger and envy arising from your hatred deserve; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

You will know that I, ADONAI, have heard all your blasphemous talk against the mountains of Isra'el, such as, "They are desolated, they are given to us to devour."

Moreover, you have boasted against me with your mouths, speaking more and more against me - I have heard it.'

Here is what Adonai ELOHIM says: 'To the joy of all the land, I will desolate you.

Since you rejoiced over possessing the house of Isra'el, because it was desolate, that is what I will do to you - you will be desolate, Mount Se'ir and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am ADONAI.'