Isaiah 34:5-6 ASV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:5-8

Isaiah 34:5-Ruth : . In preparation for the slaughter of earth Yahweh’ s sword has drunk its fill of wrath in heaven. Now, charged and sharpened with its fury, it descends to execute the ban upon Edom ( mg.) . His sword reeks with blood and is glutted with fat, but the victims slaughtered in this sacrifice are the Edomites, commoners ( Isaiah 34:6) and aristocrats ( Isaiah 34:7) alike; for it is the day of Yahweh’ s vengeance in the controversy He has with Edom for the wrongs she has... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:5

Shall be bathed in the blood of these people; Heb. is or shall be made drunk. In heaven; either, 1. In my church, which is called heaven, Daniel 8:10; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 12:1, in and against which these enemies are said to be gathered together. Or, 2. In the highest heaven, where God dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there decreed and appointed to be done. Upon Idumea; upon the Edomites, who, though they were nearly related to the Israelites, and were circumcised... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:6

Is filled with blood; shall drink its fill of blood. The metaphor is here taken from a great glutton or drunkard, who is almost insatiable with meat and drink. With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: by, lambs, and goats, and rams, he means people of all ranks and conditions, high and low, rich and poor. A sacrifice; so he calleth this bloody work, because it was done by God’s command, and for his honour; and therefore was a service acceptable to him. Bozrah; a... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

Isaiah 34:5 The text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible. It reveals celestial regions, in which there are also great struggles going on. It lifts up our eyes to the grander movements of the world of spirits; and then it declares that the sword which is to be used in fighting what seems to be the petty wars of the Hebrews and the Edomites, is the same sword which has been used in these celestial conflicts; that the means and instruments of righteousness... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 34:5

Idumea See; Isaiah 34:1-8; Isaiah 34:1-8 (See Scofield " :-") 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 34:1-17

Isaiah 34:1-17Come near, ye nations, to hear.--The subject is, as in chap.13., the Lord’s judgment upon all the nations; and as chap 13. singled outBabylon for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom. (Prof. G. A. Smith, D,D.)Edom Edom represents here all the powers hostile to the Church of God as such, and is thus an idea of the profoundest and widest cosmical significance. (F. Delitzsch.)Edom’s punishmentThe eternal punishment falling on the Edomites is depicted (Isaiah 34:8-10) in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 34:5

Isaiah 34:5My sword shall be bathed in heavenThe sword bathed in heavenThe text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible.It reveals celestial regions, in which there are also great struggles going on. It lifts up our eyes to the grander movements of the world of spirits; and then it declares that the sword which is to be used in fighting what seem to be the petty wars of the Hebrews and the Edomites, is the same sword which has been used in these celestial... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

Isa 34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. Ver. 5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven. ] Heb., Drunk, or drenched - i.e., In coelo decretum est ut inebrietur; whencesoever the sword comes, it is bathed in heaven, hath its commission from God (Jeremiah 47:6-7 ; see Jer 46:9 ), and as a drunken man reeleth to and fro, so the sword, when once in commission, roveth up and down, and rideth circuit... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 34:5-8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 34:6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 34:5

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 34:1-17

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 34:1-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 34:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 34:5

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