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The Eternal One indeed has a blood-gulping sword.
    It drinks up fat and blood from the innards
And flesh of lambs, goats, and rams—the sacrifice.
    And now the Eternal is coming to sacrifice the Edomites—
A great slaughter in their capital Bozrah,
And great wild cattle will be slaughtered
    along with them—bulls, oxen, and steers—
Until their land is soggy with blood and oozes with their fat.
For the Eternal has determined a time for retaliation,
    a time to vindicate Zion, ravaged by Babylon and Edom.

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The sword(A) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(B) in Bozrah(C)
    and a great slaughter(D) in the land of Edom.
And the wild oxen(E) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(F)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(G)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

For the Lord has a day(H) of vengeance,(I)
    a year of retribution,(J) to uphold Zion’s cause.

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