Isaiah 34:7

Isaiah 34:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• New International Version (NIV)And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.”

Context of Isaiah 34:7

5For My sword has drunk its fill in heaven; Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom, And upon the people whom I have designated for destruction. 6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; So their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat. 8For the Lord has a day of vengeance, A year of retribution for the cause of Zion. 9Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.

Isaiah 34:7 word by word

וְיָרְד֤וּ רְאֵמִים֙ עִמָּ֔ם וּפָרִ֖ים עִם־אַבִּירִ֑ים וְרִוְּתָ֤ה אַרְצָם֙ מִדָּ֔ם וַעֲפָרָ֖ם מֵחֵ֥לֶב יְדֻשָּֽׁן׃Read the interlinear

• Wildרְאֵםre'êm re'êym rêym rêm · wild oxH7214
• fallיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• youngפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• with strongאַבִּיר'abbîyr · mighty: oxH47
• So their landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• soakedרָוָהrâvâh · to quenchH7301
• with bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• And their dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• becomeדָּשֵׁןdâshên · to prosperH1878
• with fatחֵ֫לֶבcheleb chêleb · fatH2459

Cross-references for Isaiah 34:7

• Numbers 23:22God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
• Numbers 24:8God brings him out of Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, And will crush their bones, And smash them with his arrows.
• Deuteronomy 33:17As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; With them he will gore the peoples All at once, to the ends of the earth. And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”
• Job 39:9Will the wild bull be willing to serve you, Or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
• Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.
• Psalms 68:30Rebuke the animals in the reeds, The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, Trampling the pieces of silver; He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.
• Jeremiah 46:21Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For they too have turned away and have fled together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their disaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
• Jeremiah 50:11“Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, You who pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer And neigh like stallions,
• Isaiah 34:3So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

Commentaries on Isaiah 34:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7The unicorns shall come down - ראמים reemim, translated wild goats by Bishop Lowth. The ראם reem Bochart thinks to be a species of wild goat in the deserts of Arabia. It seems generally to mean the rhinoceros. With blood "With their blood" - מדמם middamam ; so two ancient MSS. of Kennicott's the Syriac, and Chaldee.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7And the unicorns - Margin, Rhinoceros‘ (ראמים re'ēmı̂ym from ראם re'êm ). This was evidently an animal well known in Palestine, since it is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament (Numbers 23:22; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9-10; Psalm 22:21; Psalm 29:6; Psalm 92:10, in all which places it is translated unicorn, or unicorn). The derivation of the word is uncertain, and it has been regarded as doubtful what animal is intended. The corresponding Arabic…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-17This prophecy of judgment was against the nations at the terrifying day of the Lord (see study note on Isaiah 2:5–22; see also Isaiah 63:1–6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. unicorns--Hebrew, reem: conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and pre-eminence (see on Job 39:9), in the Bible. At one time the image in the term answers to a reality in nature; at another it symbolizes an abstraction. The rhinoceros was the original type. The Arab rim is two-horned: it was the oryx (the leucoryx, antelope, bold and pugnacious); but when accident or artifice deprived it of one horn, the notion of the unicorn arose. Here is meant the…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 34:7

• Unicorn (Wild Ox, Rsv)
• War

In the dictionaries

• Bullock
• Scroll
• Seek
• Unicorn
• Fatness
• Isaiah
• Obadiah, Book of
• Rhinoceros
• Wild Ox
• Edom, Idumaea or Idumea

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