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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 34:1-4

The manner in which the Lord, by his servant the Prophet, opens this chapter, is very striking, and not unsimilar to other places on the same subject. When the Lord speaks, well may man hear; Ezekiel 9:1 ; Micah 6:2 . It is only for the Reader to turn to those scriptures, to discover, how both prophets and apostles agree in this same thing; 2 Peter 3:10 ; Matthew 24:29-30 ; Revelation 6:12-14 . read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:1-8

1-8 Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of his patience, so all must expect to feel his resentment. The description of bloodshed suggests tremendous ideas of the Divine judgments. Idumea here denotes the nations at enmity with the church; also the kingdom of antichrist. Our thoughts cannot reach the horrors of that awful season, to those found opposing the church of Christ. There... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 34:1-4

Judgments upon Idumea. Isaiah is rightly called the evangelist of the Old Testament. Throughout his book of prophecies he refers to conditions as they would obtain in the time of the Messiah. In chapters 34 and 35 also, which form the conclusion of the first half of his book, he makes use of New Testament ideas and pictures. For this reason these ers, at the same time, strike the introductory chords to the great Book of Consolations, 40-66. Introductory Proclamation v. 1. Come near, ye... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 34:1-4

FOURTH SUBDIVISIONTHE CONCLUSION OF PART FIRSTIsaiah 34-35Chapters 34–35 are the proper conclusion of the first part of Isaiah’s prophecies. For chaps. 36–39 are only an historical supplement, though a very important one. Hence I do not think that chaps. 34–35. are only the finale of chaps 28–33; for that we have already found in chap. 33. rather chaps. 34–35 form a conclusion of the first half of the book that sums up and finishes the announcements of judgment and salvation of the first part,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 34:1-17

Reaping the Whirlwind Isaiah 34:1-17 This chapter is one prolonged description of the judgments which were to befall the nations at the hand of Assyria and Babylon. The imagery employed is borrowed from the destruction of the cities of the plain. Streams of pitch; dust of brimstone; the ever-ascending smoke of a furnace; the scream of the eagle, hawk, and owl; the invasion of palaces by the thistle; the howl of the wolf; the call of the jackal; the arrow-snakes nest; the kite with its... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 34:1-17

This and the following chapter constitute the second part of the final circle of the prophecies of judgment. Terrible indeed is the description of world-wide desolation which this chapter presents. The nations, the people, and the whole earth are summoned to hear. Jehovah declares His indignation, and announces His determination to act in a judgment which will involve the whole earth and the host of heaven. From this wide outlook, the prophet passes to a description of the judgment of God on... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:1-4

Isaiah 34:1-Numbers : . All nations are summoned to hear their doom. Yahweh is infuriated against them, He has pronounced the ban (pp. 99, 114, Deuteronomy 2:34 *, Joshua 6:17 *) upon them. The foul odour of their exposed and putrefying corpses shall fill the air, the mountains be dissolved with their blood. The sky shall be rolled up like a scroll, and the stars drop off it ( Revelation 6:13 f.) like a fading leaf from the vine or fig-tree. Isaiah 34:4 . host of heaven: read “ hills” ; the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:3

Shall be cast out into the fields, where they shall lie unburied, and be left for a prey to all ravenous birds and beasts; whereby he implies, either the vast numbers which shall be slain, so as they could not have time or place to bury them; or the curse of God upon them, and the people’s contempt and abhorrency of them. The mountains about Jerusalem, where they are supposed to be gathered to fight against Jerusalem, as the Assyrians now were, and as other enemies afterward would be, Zechariah... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 34:1-17

Chapter 34Come near, ye nations, to hear; hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation ( Isaiah 34:1-2 )A term that is used in the Old Testament for the Great Tribulation period.the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations ( Isaiah 34:2 ),Or the wrath of God, the Great Tribulation.his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 34:1-17

Isaiah 34:1-2 . Come near ye nations to hear for the indignation of the Lord is upon all the kingdoms of western Asia. Those nations are named in Jeremiah 25:0. They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre, Edom, Moab, Philistia, Arabia, Elam, and Media. Five years after the fall of Jerusalem, and while the siege of Tyre was conducting, Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Edom in his bloody career. At the fall of Jerusalem, Edom had not concealed her wanton joy. She had joined the Chaldeans in cruel wars... read more

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