Isaiah 34:6

Isaiah 34:6

4 ^aAll the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
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.

5 “For ^aMy sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it ^bshall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.

6 The ^asword of the Lord is filled with blood,
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.

7 The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust¹ saturated with fatness.”

8 For it is the day of the Lord’s ^avengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

9 ^aIts streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.

10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
^aIts smoke shall ascend forever.
^bFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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filled—glutted. The image of a sacrifice is continued.

blood . . . fat—the parts especially devoted to God in a sacrifice (II Samuel 1:22).

lambs . . . goats—sacrificial animals: the Idumeans, of all classes, doomed to slaughter, are meant (Zephaniah 1:7).

Bozrah—called Bostra by the Romans, etc., assigned in Jeremiah 48:24 to Moab, so that it seems to have been at one time in the dominion of Edom, and at another in that of Moab (Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13, Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 49:22); it was strictly not in Edom, but the capital of Auranitis (the Houran). Edom seems to have extended its dominion so as to include it (compare Lamentations 4:21).

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