‘And the wild oxen will come down with them,

And the bullocks with the mighty ones,

And their land will be drunk with blood,

and their dust made fat with fatness.'

Not only Edom but their wild neighbours will be included in the sacrifice, pictured in terms of wild oxen, representing their wilder roving neighbours, while the bullocks and mighty ones possibly represent their other, less wild, near neighbours. There will be so much blood spilled that the land will become drunk with it, with the dust cloyed together in the melted fat.

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