1Come near, you nations, to hear!
2For the LORD is enraged against all the nations,
3Their slain will also be cast out,
4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
5For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
6The LORD’s sword is filled with blood.
7The wild oxen will come down with them,
8For the LORD has a day of vengeance,
9Its streams will be turned into pitch,
10It won’t be quenched night or day.
11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
12They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;
13Thorns will come up in its palaces,
14The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,
15The arrow snake will make her nest there,
16Search in the book of the LORD, and read:
17He has cast the lot for them,