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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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:1

‘Come near, you nations, to hear, And listen you peoples. Let the earth hear, and its fullness, The world and all things that come forth from it.’ The nations of the world are all called to come near and witness this judgment about to be described. Indeed not only the nations but also the whole of creation, is to consider what God is about to do. Compare on this Isaiah 1:2. From it they will learn how precious to Him are His people, and what it means to deal wrongly with them. All are finally... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:2

‘For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, And fury against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them (put them under the Ban, devoted them), He has delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also will be cast out, And the stink of their carcases will come up, And the mountains will be melted with their blood.’ The fact that the nations have been called on to witness this and are having it explained to them, and that the total judgment of ‘all the nations’ mentioned here is... 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 34:1

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people; let the people of all nations take notice of what I am about to say and do, as that wherein they are generally concerned, and by the consideration whereof they may, if they will, be instructed, and so delivered from the calamity here denounced. All things that come forth of it, Heb. all the offsprings of it; either, 1. All the trees and fruits, and other productions of it; for it is usual with the prophets, by a figure, to turn their... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:2

Upon all nations; not only upon the Assyrians, and those nations which were confederate with them in this expedition, but upon all other enemies of my people whatsoever. He hath utterly destroyed them; he will infallibly destroy all of them. 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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