Isaiah 34:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.c ”

Isaiah 34:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And thorns ... - (see the note at Isaiah 5:6 ) It shall be an habitation of dragons - On the meaning of the word ‘dragons,’ see the note at Isaiah 13:22 . Court for owls - A place of re...
Isaiah 34:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Edom is near to the Dead Sea, and the country is volcanic, and these facts suggest this lurid picture of judgment. Edom's rivers will be turned to pitch, its dust to brimstone, the land shall be a sm...
Isaiah 34:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

come up in . climb.
Isaiah 34:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

13. In her palaces she shall bring forth thorns. He pursues the same subject; for he describes a frightful desolation, by which splendid houses and palaces are levelled to the ground, or red...
Isaiah 34:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. And thorns shall come up in her palaces - וע...
Isaiah 34:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the streams thereof, &c.— The prophet, whose copiousness of speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen figures, an image of the land and city desolated by war, wasted b...
Isaiah 34:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. An habitation of dragons - (note, Isa...
Isaiah 34:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. Cp. 1 Isaiah 3:10 .
Isaiah 34:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

An habitation of dragons, and a court for owls... — The wild creatures named are identified, as elsewhere, with “ jackals” (“wild dogs,” Delitzsch) and “ostriches.”
Isaiah 34:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 borr...
Isaiah 34:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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. T...
Isaiah 34:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we read these scriptures through the medium of the gospel, and drop the similitudes in the realities, we shall find an exact description of the human heart, void of grace; and the dreadful conditi...
Isaiah 34:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thorns shall come up in her palaces ,.... Where their kings and princes dwelt, and kept their courts, popes and cardinals; here will be the tokens of God's curse, as thorns are, these being the...
Isaiah 34:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls. Ver. 13. A court for owls. ] Or, Ostriche...
Isaiah 34:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the streams thereof The rivers, which seem most secure from the judgment here threatened; shall be turned into pitch , &c. The country shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even...
Isaiah 34:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against God's Enemies. B. C. 720. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turn...
Isaiah 34:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is another mark and evidence of extreme desolation, as it is also, Hosea 9:6 .
Isaiah 34:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The All-Embracing Nature of the Judgment and Its Permanence ( Isaiah 34:9-17 ). It is important to note that God's judgment on Edom will be all-embracing and permanent. Nothing will survive it. It...
Isaiah 34:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:1 . 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 . They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre,...
Isaiah 34:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Come 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 out Babylon for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom....
Isaiah 34:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD , AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT ( Isaiah 34:1-23 ; Isaiah 35:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 34:1-23 a...
Isaiah 34:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God
Isaiah 34:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 9:6 ; Isaiah 13:21 ; Isaiah 13:22 ; Isaiah 32:13 ; Isaiah 32:14 ; Isaiah 35:7 ; Jeremiah 10:22 ; Jeremiah 49:33 ; Jeremiah 50:39 ; Jeremiah 50:40 ; Jeremiah 51:37 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ;...

Isaiah 34:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 34:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 34:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 34:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 34:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 34:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 34:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 34:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 34:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge