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Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Isaiah 34:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - War;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Destruction);   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Melt (and forms);   Stink;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carcass;   Corpse;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their slain will be thrown out,and the stench of their corpses will rise;the mountains will flow with their blood.
Hebrew Names Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
New American Standard Bible
So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.
New Century Version
Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.
Amplified Bible
So their slain will be thrown out, And the stench of their corpses will rise, And the mountains will flow with their blood.
World English Bible
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And their slaine shalbe cast out, and their stincke shall come vp out of their bodies, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.
Legacy Standard Bible
So their slain will be cast out,And their corpses will give off their stench,And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.
Berean Standard Bible
Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Contemporary English Version
Their dead bodies will be left to rot and stink; their blood will flow down the mountains.
Complete Jewish Bible
Their slain will be thrown out, the stench will rise from their corpses, the mountains will flow with their blood.
Darby Translation
And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.
George Lamsa Translation
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their corpses shall come up, and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood.
Good News Translation
Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood.
Lexham English Bible
And their slain shall be cast out; as for their corpses, their stench shall go up. And the mountains shall melt with their blood,
Literal Translation
And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall go up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So that their slayne shalbe cast out, & their bodies stincke: that eue the very hilles shalbe wet with the bloude of them.
American Standard Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Bible in Basic English
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their carcasses shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
King James Version (1611)
Their slaine also shalbe cast out, and their stinke shall come vp out of their carkeises, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that their slayne shalbe cast out and their bodyes stincke, that euen the very hylles shalbe wet with the blood of them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
English Revised Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their carcases shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The slayn men of hem schulen be cast forth, and stynk schal stie of the careyns of hem; hillis schulen flete of the blood of hem.
Update Bible Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Webster's Bible Translation
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
New English Translation
Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.
New King James Version
Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
New Living Translation
Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood.
New Life Bible
Their dead will be thrown out. Their dead bodies will give off a bad smell. The mountains will flow with their blood.
New Revised Standard
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And their slain shall be cast out, And their carcases, the stench of them shall ascend, - And, the mountains, shall melt away with their blood.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Revised Standard Version
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
Young's Literal Translation
And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

Contextual Overview

1 Draw in close now, nations. Listen carefully, you people. Pay attention! Earth, you, too, and everything in you. World, and all that comes from you. 2And here's why: God is angry, good and angry with all the nations, So blazingly angry at their arms and armies that he's going to rid earth of them, wipe them out. The corpses, thrown in a heap, will stink like the town dump in midsummer, Their blood flowing off the mountains like creeks in spring runoff. Stars will fall out of the sky like overripe, rotting fruit in the orchard, And the sky itself will be folded up like a blanket and put away in a closet. All that army of stars, shriveled to nothing, like leaves and fruit in autumn, dropping and rotting! 5"Once I've finished with earth and sky, I'll start in on Edom. I'll come down hard on Edom, a people I've slated for total termination." God has a sword, thirsty for blood and more blood, a sword hungry for well-fed flesh, Lamb and goat blood, the suet-rich kidneys of rams. Yes, God has scheduled a sacrifice in Bozrah, the capital, the whole country of Edom a slaughterhouse. A wholesale slaughter, wild animals and farm animals alike slaughtered. The whole country soaked with blood, all the ground greasy with fat. 8It'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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slain: Isaiah 14:19, Isaiah 14:20, 2 Kings 9:35-37, Jeremiah 8:1, Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 22:19, Ezekiel 39:4, Ezekiel 39:11, Joel 2:20

and the mountains: Isaiah 34:7, Ezekiel 32:5, Ezekiel 32:6, Revelation 14:20, Revelation 16:3, Revelation 16:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:26 - General Ezekiel 21:32 - thy blood Ezekiel 30:11 - and fill Revelation 19:13 - clothed

Cross-References

Ruth 1:14
Again they cried openly. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye; but Ruth embraced her and held on.
1 Samuel 18:1
By the time David had finished reporting to Saul, Jonathan was deeply impressed with David—an immediate bond was forged between them. He became totally committed to David. From that point on he would be David's number-one advocate and friend.
Hosea 2:14
"And now, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to start all over again. I'm taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I'll court her. I'll give her bouquets of roses. I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She'll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their slain also shall be cast out,.... Upon the open fields, and there lie unburied, and become meat for the fowls of heaven, who are invited to them as to a supper, even the supper of the great God, Revelation 19:17:

and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses; so that they shall become loathsome and abominable to the living, and none shall care to come near thereto bury them; an emblem of their loathsome and abominable sins, the cause of this destruction:

and the mountains shall be melted with their blood; an hyperbolical expression, denoting the great number of the slain upon the mountains, and the great quantity of blood shed there; which should run down in large streams, and carry part of them along with it, as large and hasty showers of rain wash away the earth, and carry it along with them; such an hyperbole see in Revelation 14:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their 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 away by the vast quantity of blood that would be shed by the anger of Yahweh.


 
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