Isaiah 34:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ The streams of Edom will be turned into tar.
    Its dust will be turned into blazing sulfur.
    Its land will become burning tar.
¹⁰ The fire will keep burning night and day.
    It can’t be put out.
    Its smoke will go up forever.
Edom will lie empty for all time to come.
    No one will ever travel through it again.
¹¹ The desert owl and screech owl will make it their home.
    The great owl and the raven will build their nests there.
God will use his measuring line
    to show how completely Edom will be destroyed.
He will use his plumb line
    to show how empty Edom will become.