Isaiah 34:8

Bible in Basic English

For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,a time of paying back Edomfor its hostility against Zion.

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Tziyon.

King James Version
For it is the day of the Lord 's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

English Standard Version
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.

New Century Version
The Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.

World English Bible
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For it is the day of the Lordes vengeance, and the yeere of recompence for the iudgement of Zion.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a time of retribution for Edom's hostility against Zion.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has chosen the year and the day, when he will take revenge and come to Zion's defense.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai has a day of vengeance, a year of requital for fighting with Tziyon.

Darby Translation
For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

Easy-to-Read Version
This will happen because the Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrong they did to Zion.

George Lamsa Translation
For it is the day of the LORDS vengeance and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion,

Good News Translation
This is the time when the Lord will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.

Literal Translation
For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of repayments for Zion's cause.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vnto the also (o Sion) shal come the daye of the vengeaunce of God, and the yeare when as thyne owne iugdmentes shalbe recompensed.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

King James Version (1611)
For it is the day of the Lords vengeance, and the yeere of recompences for the controuersie of Zion.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For it is the day of Gods vengeaunce, and the yere of recompence for the reuenge of Sion.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For it is the day of judgement of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgement.

English Revised Version
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for it is a dai of veniaunce of the Lord, a yeer of yeldyng of the dom of Sion.

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Webster's Bible Translation
For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

New English Translation
For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

New King James Version
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

New Living Translation
For it is the day of the Lord 's revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.

New Life Bible
For the Lord has a day when He will punish, a year when He pays back which will help Zion.

New Revised Standard
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of vindication by Zion's cause.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For a day of avenging, hath Yahweh, - A year of requitals for the quarrel of Zion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Young's Literal Translation
(For a day of vengeance [is] to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

THE MESSAGE
It's God 's scheduled time for vengeance, the year all Zion's accounts are settled. Edom's streams will flow sluggish, thick with pollution, the soil sterile, poisoned with waste, The whole country a smoking, stinking garbage dump— The fires burning day and night, the skies black with endless smoke. Generation after generation of wasteland— no more travelers through this country! Vultures and skunks will police the streets; owls and crows will feel at home there. God will reverse creation. Chaos! He will cancel fertility. Emptiness! Leaders will have no one to lead. They'll name it No Kingdom There, A country where all kings and princes are unemployed. Thistles will take over, covering the castles, fortresses conquered by weeds and thornbushes. Wild dogs will prowl the ruins, ostriches have the run of the place. Wildcats and hyenas will hunt together, demons and devils dance through the night. The night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious, will establish permanent quarters. Scavenging carrion birds will breed and brood, infestations of ominous evil.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Contextual Overview

¹ Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it. ² For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction. ³ Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing. ⁴ And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree. ⁵ For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. ⁶ The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle. ⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 26:21, Isaiah 35:4, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 59:17, Isaiah 59:18, Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 63:4, Deuteronomy 32:35, Deuteronomy 32:41-43, Psalms 94:1, Jeremiah 46:10, Micah 6:1, Luke 18:7, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10, Revelation 6:10, Revelation 6:11, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 19:2

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:18 - wickedness Isaiah 13:6 - for the day Isaiah 66:6 - a voice of the Lord Jeremiah 25:31 - A noise Jeremiah 51:26 - desolate for ever Jeremiah 51:37 - become Jeremiah 51:56 - the Lord Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Hosea 4:1 - for Joel 3:4 - swiftly Luke 21:22 - the days Acts 2:20 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 34:3
Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

1 Kings 11:2
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

Psalms 63:1
O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psalms 84:2
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Psalms 119:20
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [it is] the day of the Lord's vengeance,.... The time which he has appointed to take vengeance on antichrist, his 1260 days, or years; being up, in which he is to reign; these being expired, the time is come for the Lord to avenge the blood of his saints; see

Revelation 18:20:

[and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; the church of God, which has been for many ages abused and injured by the antichristian powers, for which the Lord will have a controversy with them; he will appear in favour of his people, and plead the cause of Zion, and recompense their enemies for all the injuries they have done them; then they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity, and they that have killed with the sword shall be killed with it,

Revelation 13:10 this will be a time of double recompence; and therefore perhaps the word is used in the plural number; it will be the time of rewarding antichrist as he has rewarded others; and it will be the time of the dead, that they shall be judged, and rewards given to God's servants the prophets, Revelation 18:6. The Targum is,

"the year of recompence, to take vengeance of judgment for the injury of Zion.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance - A time when Yahweh will take vengeance.

The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion - The time when he will recompense, that is, punish those who have had a controversy with Zion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 34:8. The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion - "The year of recompense to the defender of the cause of Zion"] As from דון dun, דין din, a judge; so from רוב rub, ריב rib, an advocate, or defender; Judici Sionis: Syriac.