8. The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
9. Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.Its dirt will be like burning sulfur.Its land will be like burning tar.
10. The fires will burn night and day;the smoke will rise from Edom forever.Year after year that land will be empty;no one will ever travel through that land again.
11. Birds and small animals will own that land,and owls and ravens will live there.God will make it an empty wasteland;it will have nothing left in it.