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3 Also their slain shall be thrown out;
aTheir stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 
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. 
11 aBut the1 pelican and the porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And bHe shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. 
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 34:5

sword— (Jeremiah 46:10). Or else, knife for sacrifice for God does not here appear as a warrior with His sword, but as one about to sacrifice victims doomed to slaughter [VITRINGA]. (Ezekiel 39:17).

bathed—rather "intoxicated," namely, with anger (so Deuteronomy 32:42). "In heaven" implies the place where God's purpose of wrath is formed in antithesis to its "coming down" in the next clause.

Idumea—originally extending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea; afterwards they obtained possession of the country east of Moab, of which Bozrah was capital. Petra or Selah, called Joktheel (II Kings 14:7), was capital of South Edom (see on Isaiah 16:1). David subjugated Edom (II Samuel 8:13-14). Under Jehoram they regained independence (II Chronicles 21:8). Under Amaziah they were again subdued, and Selah taken (II Kings 14:7). When Judah was captive in Babylon, Edom, in every way, insulted over her fallen mistress, killed many of those Jews whom the Chaldeans had left, and hence was held guilty of fratricide by God (Esau, their ancestor, having been brother to Jacob): this was the cause of the denunciations of the prophets against Edom Isaiah 63:1, etc.; Jeremiah 49:7; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Ezekiel 35:3-15; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11-12; Obadiah 1:8, Obadiah 1:10, Obadiah 1:12-18; Malachi 1:3-4). Nebuchadnezzar humbled Idumea accordingly (Jeremiah 25:15-21).

of my curse—that is, doomed to it.

to judgment—that is, to execute it.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 34:5:

Isaiah 18:4
Isaiah 21:12
Isaiah 42:2
Isaiah 62:12
Jeremiah 49:7
Ezekiel 25:14
Ezekiel 32:29
Ezekiel 35:2
Amos 1:11
Malachi 1:4

 

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