Isaiah 34:5-6 ASV

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 34:1-17

Contrasts In Providence Isaiah 34:0 , Isaiah 35:0 These chapters are part of the summing-up of the first section of Isaiah's double volume. They are the epilogue of the first volume. Hezekiah was closing his sovereignty, apparently; whether anything may occur to extend the reign will presently be seen. The Egyptian alliance, and the attack of Sennacherib upon Israel, are matters that have fallen back a long way, if not in time-distance, yet in sense of victory and deliverance. These are two... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 34:5-8

I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call the Reader's attention to that striking one folded up in them of the Lord's sacrifice in Bozrah. Is there not in this an allusion to the same person and sacrifice, as the prophet in a vision relates to us in the sixty third chapter? I beg the Reader to turn to it, and pause over the subject. Who but Christ, is the sacrifice of Jehovah? Who but Christ was... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

Heaven. Casting down the rebel angels. (St. Jerome) --- The resolution to destroy the Idumeans, for their cruelty to the Jews, has been taken long ago. All these expressions allude to the last judgment. (Calmet) --- Idumea. Under the name of Idumea or Edom, a people that were enemies of God and his Church. (Challoner) --- Assaradon fell upon Edom two years after Sennacherib's death. (Calmet) --- No strong place like Bosra, shall rescue any from destruction at the last day. (Worthington) 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 34:5-17

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God v. 5. For My sword shall be bathed in heaven, intoxicated, as it were, as it prepares to execute His punishment; behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, as in a drunken frenzy, and upon the people of My curse, those doomed to experience His condemnation, to judgment. The Lord has an unparalleled slaughter and sacrifice in mind, to be carried out upon Edom, the apostate brother nation of Israel, and upon all those who followed Edom in his enmity... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 34:5-15

2. THE JUDGMENT ON EDOM, AS REPRESENTATION OF THE WHOLE IN ONE PARTICULAR EXAMPLE OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ISRAELIsaiah 34:5-155 6For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea,And upon the people of my curse, to judgment.6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,It is made fat with fatness,And with the blood of lambs and goats,With the fat of the kidneys of rams:For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,And a great slaughter in the land of... 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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

THE SWORD BATBED IN HEAVEN‘For My sword shall be bathed in heaven.’ Isaiah 34:5 I. All good struggle in the world is really God’s battle, and ought to recognise itself as such.—Every special victory of human progress—the victory over slavery, the victory over superstition, the victory over social wrong, nay, even the victory over tough matter, the subduing of the hard stuff of nature to spiritual uses—each of these is but a step in the great onward march of God taking possession of His own.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:5-6

‘For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold it will come down on Edom, And on the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.’ It is clear from this that the main verdict is against Edom and its neighbours, ‘the people of my curse’ (compare Exodus 17:14; Exodus 17:16; Exodus... read more