Isaiah 34:2

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it. ²The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.³Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. ⁴All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. ⁵When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. ⁶The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat-with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat. ⁸For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a time of retribution for Edom's hostility against Zion.

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the indignation: Isaiah 24:1-23, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Joel 3:9-14, Amos 1:1 - Amos 2:16, Zephaniah 3:8, Zechariah 14:3, Zechariah 14:12-16, Romans 1:18, Revelation 6:12-17, Revelation 14:15-20, Revelation 19:15-21, Revelation 20:9, Revelation 20:15

and his: Isaiah 30:27-30, Nahum 1:2-6

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:14 - and the Psalms 46:8 - desolations Psalms 110:6 - fill Isaiah 24:21 - the Lord Isaiah 30:25 - in the day Isaiah 63:3 - and trample Jeremiah 25:32 - evil Jeremiah 25:33 - the slain Jeremiah 48:15 - gone Ezekiel 30:3 - the time Ezekiel 32:4 - General Ezekiel 35:8 - General Ezekiel 39:4 - I will Joel 3:14 - multitudes

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 20:2
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Genesis 33:19
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

Genesis 34:6
Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

Genesis 34:7
When Jacob's sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter-a thing that should not be done.

Genesis 34:10
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property."

Genesis 34:11
Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.

Genesis 34:24
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.

Genesis 34:25
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons (Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the indignation of the Lord [is] upon all nations,.... All the nations of the earth, which have committed fornication with the whore of Rome, or have given in to her false worship, superstition, and idolatry; which is the reason of God's wrath and indignation against them, and of such severe punishment being inflicted on them; see

Revelation 18:3:

and [his] fury upon all their armies; the armies of the kings of the earth, gathered together at Armageddon, to make war with Christ, and those that follow him; see Revelation 16:14:

he hath utterly destroyed them; not only devoted them to destruction, but actually destroyed them, with "Cherem", an utter destruction; one of the words of which Armageddon is compounded, and so points at the place, as well as the nature and manner, of the destruction:

he hath delivered them to slaughter; to be slain with the sword of him that sitteth on the white horse, which proceeds out of his mouth,

Revelation 19:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the indignation of the Lord - Yahweh is about to express his wrath against all the nations which are opposed to his people.

He hath utterly destroyed them - In his purpose, or intention. The prophet represents this as so certain that it may be exhibited as already done.