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 to me, people of all nations. Listen carefully, everyone! All the earth, and everything that is in it, listen to me! Yes, the whole world, and all who live in it, listen carefully! 2The Lord is angry against all the nations and all their armies. He has decided to destroy them, and that is what he will do. Nobody will bury the dead bodies of those who have died in battle. The smell of their dead bodies will be everywhere. Their blood will pour down the mountains. 4The stars in the sky will slowly disappear. The sky will close up like a book. All the stars will fall, like dry leaves that fall from a vine. They will drop like figs from a fig tree, when they become dry. 5The Lord says, ‘My sword has finished its work in the skies. Now it will come to punish Edom. Those are the people that I have decided to destroy.’

Isaiah 34:3 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Their slainחָלָלchâlâl · slain: killedH2491
• also shall be cast outשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• and their stinkבְּאֹשׁbe'ôsh · stenchH889
• shall come upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• out of their carcasesפֶּ֫גֶרpeger · corpseH6297
• and the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• shall be meltedמָסַסmâsas · to meltH4549
• with their bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818

Cross-references for Isaiah 34:3

• Isaiah 14:19But as for you, Babylon's king, they have thrown you out! You have no grave! You are like a branch that has broken off. You lie among the dead bodies of soldiers that their enemies have killed with their swords. They have thrown your body into a big hole in the rocks, and they have walked over it.
• 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, not much of her body was still there. They found only her skull, her feet and her hands.
• Jeremiah 8:1The Lord says, ‘At that time, your enemies will open the graves of your leaders and they will remove their bones. They will remove the bones of Judah's kings and their officers, as well as the priests and prophets. They will also remove the bones of the ordinary people of Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 22:19Instead, they will bury him like a dead donkey. They will pull his dead body to the city's gate. They will throw it on the ground outside Jerusalem.’
• Ezekiel 39:4You will fall to the ground on Israel's mountains. You, your soldiers and the people who are with you will all die there. Vultures and wild animals will eat your dead bodies.
• Joel 2:20I will send the army from the north far from you. I will push it into empty land where nothing grows. I will make the front of it go into the sea on the east. And I will make the back of it go into the sea on the west. I will make its smell rise up high because it has done great things.’
• Isaiah 34:7He will kill their wild oxen and their young bulls. Blood will pour over Edom's land. Fat will feed their soil.
• Ezekiel 32:5I will put the meat of your body on the mountains. Your bones will fill the valleys.
• Revelation 14:20The winepress was outside the city. When God stamped on the grapes, the juice that came out of the winepress was blood. The river of blood was very deep. It rose as high as horses' necks and it went as far as 300 kilometres.
• Revelation 16:3Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. As a result, the sea became like the blood of a dead person. Everything that was living in the sea then 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