Isaiah 34:3

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.

Bible Verse Review
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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 wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

1 Samuel 18:1
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

2 Samuel 19:7
Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!"

2 Chronicles 30:22
And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 40:2
"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed, her iniquity has been pardoned; for she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins."

Hosea 2:14
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

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.