Isaiah 34

Isaiah 34:3

And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

And the mountains shall so run down with blood, as if they were melted and dissolved into it.

Isaiah 34:4

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved.

And in that great day of the Lord, shall the very frame of heaven feel an apparent alteration.

Isaiah 34:5

For my soul shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to judgment.

For my judgment, decreed in heaven, shall be fearfully executed upon the known and professed enemies of my Church; upon those people, whom I have accursed to an everlasting condemnation.

Isaiah 34:6

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.

God shall take full vengeance on his enemies: his sword shall be, as it were, fed with the blood of his great and noted adversaries: this slaughter of his shall be like to that of an universal sacrifice, which shall be killed on the altar of the land of Edom, and all the regions of his proud opposites.

Isaiah 34:7

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood.

Neither shall the tame cattle only be the matter of this sacrifice, as the poor and quiet lambs, which have no power to resist; but the wildest and fiercest of all other creatures, as the unicorns and bulls, &c., figuring the most lawless and potent enemies of Christ, shall be exposed to this bloody oblation; and their land shall be drenched and soaked with their blood.

Isaiah 34:8

For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

It is the time, wherein God will give a full satisfaction and retribution of the wrongs, that have been done to his Church, in the consummate plagues of his enemies.

Isaiah 34:9

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

There shall be nothing but horror and burning; for, instead ISAIAN, CHAP. XXXIII.—XXXV. of streams, there shall be liquid pitch; and instead of dust, brimstone: and a fire shall be put to both of them; so as the whole world shall be but as one flame.

Isaiah 34:11

The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

As for those hostile countries, that have made havock of Jerusalem, they shall be laid waste in the meantime; and turned to a habitation of solitary, doleful, and dismal birds: God shall condemn them to perpetual confusion and ruin, never to be either built or inhabited. XXXIV. 14, 15. The wild beasts, &c., the satyr shall cry to his fellow. There shall the great owl make her nest, &c. See chap. xiii. 21.

Isaiah 34:16

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Inquire after this prophecy, which I have delivered to you from the Lord, and compare it with the event: ye shall find none of these particulars to fail; but these fowls of solitude and desolation shall nest and breed here: none of them shall want her mate: I have spoken it as from God, and his power shall call them thither, and fasten them there.

Isaiah 34:17

And he cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

He hath distributed the land to them for their use, and his just providence hath divided it to them, by line: there they shall take up their abode for ever.