Isaiah 34:3

Isaiah 34:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
• New International Version (NIV)Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Context of Isaiah 34:3

1Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it. 2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter. Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. 4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree. 5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:3 word by word

וְחַלְלֵיהֶ֣ם יֻשְׁלָ֔כוּ וּפִגְרֵיהֶ֖ם יַעֲלֶ֣ה בָאְשָׁ֑ם וְנָמַ֥סּוּ הָרִ֖ים מִדָּמָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Their slainחָלָלchâlâl · slain: killedH2491
• will be left unburiedשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• and the stenchבְּאֹשׁbe'ôsh · stenchH889
• of their corpsesפֶּ֫גֶרpeger · corpseH6297
• will riseעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• will flowמָסַסmâsas · to meltH4549
• with their bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818

Cross-references for Isaiah 34:3

• Isaiah 14:19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
• 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
• Jeremiah 8:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
• Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
• Joel 2:20The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
• Isaiah 34:7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
• Ezekiel 32:5I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
• Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
• Revelation 16:3And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.

Commentaries on Isaiah 34:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Their slain also shall be cast out - They would lie unburied. The slaughter Would be so extensive, and the desolation would be so entire, that there would not remain enough to bury the dead (compare the notes at Isaiah 14:19). And the mountains shall be melted with their blood - The expression here is evidently hyperbolical, and means that as mountains and hills are wasted away by descending showers and impetuous torrents, so the hills would be washed…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Leaving a dead body unburied was shameful.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. cast out--unburied (Is 14:19). melted--washed away as with a descending torrent.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 34:3

• War

In the dictionaries

• Blood
• Scroll
• Seek
• Carcass; Carcase
• Corpse
• Isaiah
• Obadiah, Book of

Commentaries on Isaiah 34

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings