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The oxen will be killed,
    and the cattle and the strong bulls.
The land will be filled with their blood,
    and the dirt will be covered with their fat.

The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.
    He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.
    Its dirt will be like burning sulfur.
    Its land will be like burning tar.

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And the wild oxen(A) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(B)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(C)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

For the Lord has a day(D) of vengeance,(E)
    a year of retribution,(F) to uphold Zion’s cause.
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;(G)
    her land will become blazing pitch!

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