aTheir stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
bAll their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as cfruit falling from a fig tree.
Indeed it bshall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
It is made1 overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For bthe Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust1 saturated with fatness.”
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
aIts smoke shall ascend forever.
bFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
| << Isaiah 34:4 | Isaiah 34:6 >> |
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 bashshamayim , bedamim ; referring to Jeremiah 46:10. But even this is premature, and not in its proper place. The Chaldee, for rivvethah , has tithgalli , shall be revealed or disclosed: perhaps he read teraeh or 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.
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