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 Living Translation (NLT)Even men as strong as wild oxen will die— the young men alongside the veterans. The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with fat.

Context of Isaiah 34:7

5“For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment. 6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, 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. 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.” 8For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 34:7 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the unicornsרְאֵםre'êm re'êym rêym rêm · wild oxH7214
• shall come downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• with them, and the bullocksפַּרpar pâr · bullockH6499
• with the bullsאַבִּיר'abbîyr · mighty: oxH47
• and their landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• shall be soakedרָוָהrâvâh · to quenchH7301
• with bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• and their dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• made fatדָּשֵׁןdâshên · to prosperH1878
• with fatnessחֵ֫לֶבcheleb chêleb · fatH2459

Cross-references for Isaiah 34:7

• Numbers 23:22God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox.
• Numbers 24:8“God brings him out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox; He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.
• Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like a firstborn bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; Together with them He shall push the peoples To the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
• Job 39:9“Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?
• Psalms 92:10But my horn You have exalted like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil.
• Psalms 68:30Rebuke the beasts of the reeds, The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, Till everyone submits himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
• Jeremiah 46:21Also her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls, For they also are turned back, They have fled away together. They did not stand, For the day of their calamity had come upon them, The time of their punishment.
• Jeremiah 50:11“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls,
• Isaiah 34:3Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted 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

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• 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