1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
God cares about everyone, no matter what their bloodlines.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter.
The recent turmoil of the Assyrian army’s conquest is from God.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
“Heavens” and “all their host” (stars) Israel?
5 For My sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of My curse, to judgment.
Idumea is Edom. God has judged them worthy of death.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
The Lord’s sword (the Assyrian army) will be covered in the blood and fat of the Edomites.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
It is believed that what the KJV translated as “unicorns” was the large, wild bull of the region that is now extinct. Normal bulls, though entirely plant eaters, are one of the most dangerous animals there is. These aurochs, which were twice the size of today’s cattle, would have been horrendous.
8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
Edom had molested and annoyed Israel and Judah throughout their history. They began by not allowing them to pass through their land while Israel was traveling to Canaan from Egypt. They helped their enemies. They cheered when anything bad happened to them. God is going to wipe them out as punishment.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Even today most of this land is useless desert.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr (wild goats) shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, everyone with her mate.
“15 Snakes will make their homes there and lay their eggs. The eggs will open, and small snakes will crawl from the dark places. Birds that eat dead things will gather there like women visiting their friends.” -ERB
16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for My mouth it hath commanded, and His spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And He hath cast the lot for them, and His hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.