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

1Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it. 2For the Lord’s indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter. So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood. 4And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree. 5For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:3 word by word

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

• So their slainחָלָלchâlâl · slain: killedH2491
• thrownשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• And their corpsesפֶּ֫גֶרpeger · corpseH6297
• will giveעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• stenchבְּאֹשׁbe'ôsh · stenchH889
• And the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• be drenchedמָסַסmâsas · to meltH4549
• bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818

Cross-references for Isaiah 34:3

• Isaiah 14:19But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse.
• 2 Kings 9:35They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
• Jeremiah 8:1“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.
• Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried with a donkey’s burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 39:4You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.
• Joel 2:20But I will remove the northern army far from you, And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land, And its vanguard into the eastern sea, And its rear guard into the western sea. And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up, For it has done great things.”
• Isaiah 34:7Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.
• Ezekiel 32:5I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.
• Revelation 14:20And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.
• Revelation 16:3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that 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