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 hear, and all it contains, the world, and all its offspring! 2For Adonai is enraged at all the nations, and furious at all their armies. He will utterly destroy them. He will give them over to slaughter. So their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise, and the hills will be drenched with their blood. 4Then all the host of heaven will dissolve, and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll— so all their array will wither away, like a leaf drooping from a vine, like a fig shriveling from a fig tree. 5For My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens. See, it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to judgment.

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 cast out of your tomb as a discarded branch, garment of the slain, pierced with a sword, dumped into a stony pit, a corpse trodden underfoot.
• 2 Kings 9:35But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
• Jeremiah 8:1“At that time”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes, the bones of the kohanim and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves.
• Jeremiah 22:19With a donkey’s burial will he be buried, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 39:4You will fall on the mountains of Israel—you, all your troops and the people that are with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of birds of prey and to the beasts of the field.
• Joel 2:20“But I will remove the northern invader far from you—yes, I will banish him to a dry and desolate land— his vanguard into the Eastern Sea and his rearguard into the Western Sea. His odor will go up— Yes, his stench will rise.” For He has done great things!
• Isaiah 34:7Wild oxen will go down with them, bull calves with mighty steers. So their land will be soaked with blood and their dust greasy with fat.
• Ezekiel 32:5I will strew your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your refuse.
• Revelation 14:20And the winepress was stomped on outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress as high as a horse’s bridle for 1,600 stadia.
• Revelation 16:3Next the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a corpse; 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