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 close, you nations, and listen. Pay attention, you people. The earth, everyone in it, the world, and everything on it will listen. 2The Lord is angry with all the nations. He is furious with all their armies. He has claimed them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered. Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. Mountains will be red with their blood. 4All the stars in the sky will rot. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like leaves from a grapevine, like green figs from a fig tree. 5When my sword is covered ⌞with blood⌟ in the heavens, it will fall on Edom and on the people I’ve claimed for destruction.

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 you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.
• 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they couldn’t find any of her body except her skull, feet, and hands.
• Jeremiah 8:1The Lord declares, “At that time the bones of the kings and the leaders of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the others who lived in Jerusalem will be taken out of their graves.
• Jeremiah 22:19He will receive a donkey’s burial. He will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 39:4You will die on the mountains of Israel with your troops and the armies that are with you. I will let you become food for every bird of prey and for every wild animal.
• Joel 2:20“I will keep the northern ⌞army⌟ far from you, and I will force it into a dry and barren land. The soldiers in front will be forced into the eastern sea. The soldiers in back will be forced into the western sea. A foul odor will rise from the dead bodies. They will stink.” He has done great things!
• Isaiah 34:7Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat.
• Ezekiel 32:5I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your rotting corpse.
• Revelation 14:20The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city. Blood flowed out of the winepress as high as a horse’s bridle for 1,600 stadia.
• Revelation 16:3The second angel poured his bowl over the sea. The sea turned into blood like the blood of a dead man, 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