以赛亚书 34:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為我的刀在天上已經喝足了，看哪！它要落在以東，以及我決定要滅絕的民身上，為要施行審判。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 我 的 刀 在 天 上 已 经 喝 足 ； 这 刀 必 临 到 以 东 和 我 所 咒 诅 的 民 ， 要 施 行 审 判 。

Contextual Overview

¹ All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it. ² The Lord is angry with all the nations; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all. ³ Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains. ⁴ The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from a fig tree. ⁵ The Lord 's sword in the sky is covered with blood. It will cut through Edom and destroy those people as an offering to the Lord . ⁶ The Lord 's sword will be covered with blood; it will be covered with fat, with the blood from lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of sheep. This is because the Lord decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah and much killing in Edom. ⁷ The oxen will be killed, and the cattle and the strong bulls. The land will be filled with their blood, and the dirt will be covered with their fat. ⁸ The Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my sword: Deuteronomy 32:14, Deuteronomy 32:42, Psalms 17:13, Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 47:6, Ezekiel 21:3-5, Ezekiel 21:9-11, Zephaniah 2:12, Revelation 1:16

upon Idumea: Isaiah 63:1, Psalms 137:7, Jeremiah 49:7-22, Ezekiel 25:12-14, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:1-9, Malachi 1:4

the people: Deuteronomy 27:15-26, Deuteronomy 29:18-21, Matthew 25:41, 1 Corinthians 16:22, Galatians 3:10, 2 Peter 2:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:25 - will bring Numbers 24:18 - General Deuteronomy 20:17 - thou shalt Deuteronomy 32:41 - whet Deuteronomy 33:29 - the sword Psalms 7:12 - he will Isaiah 11:14 - them of the east Isaiah 27:1 - with his Isaiah 34:6 - the Lord hath Isaiah 66:16 - General Ezekiel 31:12 - upon Ezekiel 35:15 - Idumea Joel 2:31 - sun Obadiah 1:9 - every Mark 3:8 - Idumaea Revelation 12:7 - war Revelation 14:20 - and blood

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
But that day Laban took away all the male goats that had streaks or spots, all the speckled and spotted female goats (all those that had white on them), and all the black sheep. He told his sons to watch over them.

Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with lies, because Shechem had disgraced their sister Dinah.

Genesis 34:14
The brothers said to them, "We cannot allow you to marry our sister, because you are not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the Lord was speaking about when he said, ‘I must be respected as holy by those who come near me; before all the people I must be given honor.'" So Aaron did not say anything about the death of his sons.

1 Samuel 10:27
But some troublemakers said, "How can this man save us?" They disapproved of Saul and refused to bring gifts to him. But Saul kept quiet.

1 Samuel 16:11
Then he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" Jesse answered, "I still have the youngest son. He is out taking care of the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him. We will not sit down to eat until he arrives."

1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to Bethlehem, where he took care of his father's sheep.

2 Samuel 13:22
Absalom did not say a word, good or bad, to Amnon. But he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.

Psalms 39:9
I am quiet; I do not open my mouth, because you are the one who has done this.

Luke 15:25
"The older son was in the field, and as he came closer to the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven,.... That is, the sword of the Lord, as it is called in the next verse Isaiah 34:6, and it is he that is speaking; it designs the vengeance of the Lord, the punishment he will inflict on the wicked, said to be "bathed in heaven", because determined and prepared there; the allusion may be to the bathing of swords in some sort of liquor, to harden or brighten them, and so fit them for use. Kimchi renders it, "my sword" which is "in heaven shall be bathed", that is, in the blood of the slain; "heaven" may denote the whole Roman Papal jurisdiction, as it does the whole Roman Pagan empire in Revelation 12:7 and may design the principal men in it, those that are in the highest places and offices, in whom the sword of the Lord shall be first drenched, and be as it were satiated and inebriated with the blood of them:

behold, it shall come down upon Idumea; with great weight, force, and vengeance, having a commission from heaven to execute. Idumea is here particularly mentioned, because the Edomites were implacable enemies to the Jews, and so are here put for all the enemies of God's church and people, all the antichristian states, particularly Rome, which the Jews, as Jerom observes, understand by Edom or Idumea here:

upon the people of my curse to judgment; a very descriptive character of the Papists, the people of God's curse, and righteously so; those who have anathematized his people, and cursed them with bell, book, and candle, are anathematized by him, devoted to destruction, and doomed to be accursed, sentenced to ruin, and on whom judgment shall pass, and shall be executed; they shall hear, "go, ye cursed", both here and hereafter, at the fall of Babylon, and at the general judgment. The Targum is,

"because my sword is revealed in heaven; behold, upon Edom it is revealed, and upon the people whom I have condemned to judgment.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven - A sword is an instrument of vengeance, and is often so used in the Scriptures, because it was often employed in capital punishments (see the note at Isaiah 27:1). This passage bas given much perplexity to commentators, on account of the apparent want of meaning of the expression that the sword would be bathed in heaven. Lowth reads it:

For my sword is made bare in the heavens;

Following in this the Chaldee which reads תתגלי tı̂thgallı̂y, ‘shall be revealed.’ But there is no authority from manuscripts for this change in the Hebrew text. The Vulgate renders it, Quoniam inebriatus est in coelo gladius meuse - ‘My sword is intoxicated in heaven.’ The Septuagint renders it in the same way, Ἐμεθύσθη ἡ μάχαιρά μον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ Emethusthē hē machaira mou en tō ouranō; and the Syriac and Arabic in the same manner. The Hebrew word רוּתה riv^etâh, from רוה râvâh, means properly to drink to the full; to be satisfied, or sated with drink; and then to be full or satiated with intoxicating liquor, to be drunk. It is applied to the sword, as satiated or made drunk with blood, in Jeremiah 46:10 :

And the sword shall devour,

And it shall be satiate, and made drunk with their blood.

And thus in Deuteronomy 32:42, a similar figure is used respecting arrows, the instruments also of war and vengeance:

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood;

And my sword shall devour flesh.

A similar figure is often used in Oriental writers, where the sword is represented as glutted, satiated, or made drunk with blood (see Rosenmuller on Deuteronomy 32:42). Thus Bohaddinus, in the lift of Saladin, in describing a battle in which there was a great slaughter, says, ‘The swords drank of their blood until they were intoxicated.’ The idea here is, however, not that the sword of the Lord was made drunk with blood in heaven, but that it was intoxicated, or made furious with wrath; it was excited as an intoxicated man is who is under ungovernable passions; it was in heaven that the wrath commenced, and the sword of divine justice rushed forth as if intoxicated, to destroy all before it. There are few figures, even in Isaiah, that are more bold than this.

It shall come down upon Idumea - (see the Analysis of the chapter for the situation of Idumea, and for the causes why it was to be devoted to destruction).

Upon the people of my curse - The people devoted to destruction.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 34:5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven - "For my sword is made bare in the heavens"] There seems to be some impropriety in this, according to the present reading: "My sword is made drunken, or is bathed in the heavens;" which forestalls, and expresses not in its proper place, what belongs to the next verse: for the sword of JEHOVAH was not to be bathed or glutted with blood in the heavens, but in Botsra and the land of Edom. In the heavens it was only prepared for slaughter. To remedy this, Archbishop Secker proposes to read, for בשמים bashshamayim, בדמם bedamim; referring to Jeremiah 46:10. But even this is premature, and not in its proper place. The Chaldee, for רותה rivvethah, has תתגלי tithgalli, shall be revealed or disclosed: perhaps he read תראה teraeh or נראתה nirathah. Whatever reading, different I presume from the present, he might find in his copy, I follow the sense which he has given of it.