Isaiah 34
NIV
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New International Version

Isaiah 34:2-8

2The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.

3Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

4All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

5My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

6The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7And 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.

8For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

Read all of Isaiah 34

Commentaries on Isaiah 34

New International Version — © NIV® 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica