Isaiah 34:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. ”

Isaiah 34:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance - A time when Yahweh will take vengeance. The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion - The time when he will recompense, that is, punish tho...
Isaiah 34:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 r...
Isaiah 34:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Isaiah 34:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 For it is the day of vengeance of Jehovah. This verse must be viewed as closely connected with the preceding verses, for it points out the object which the Lord has in view in punishing th...
Isaiah 34:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion "The year of recompense to the defender of...
Isaiah 34:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called the great day of the Lord's vengeance, a mighty slaughter shall...
Isaiah 34:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. For (it is) the day of the Lord's vengeance, (and) the year of recompences for the controve...
Isaiah 34:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. Cp. 1 Isaiah 3:10 .
Isaiah 34:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The year of recompences for the controversy of Zion... — The long-delayed day of retribution should come at last. This would be the outcome from the hand of Jehovah for the persistent hostility of...
Isaiah 34:8 - 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 34:8 - 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 34:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 the...
Isaiah 34:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For [it is] the day of the Lord's vengeance ,.... The time which he has appointed to take vengeance on antichrist, his 1260 days, or years; being up, in which he is to reign; these being expired, th...
Isaiah 34:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. Ver. 8. For the controversy of Zion, ] i.e., Of the Church, both Jewish and Christian, sa...
Isaiah 34:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the unicorns shall come down The word ראמים, reemim , here rendered unicorns , is the same with that used Numbers 23:22 , where see the note. Bishop Lowth renders it here, wild goats; and...
Isaiah 34:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against God's Enemies. B. C. 720. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hea...
Isaiah 34:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is the time which God hath long since appointed and fixed, to avenge the cause of his oppressed and persecuted people against all their enemies.
Isaiah 34:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For it is the day of Yahweh's vengeance, The year of recompense in the controversy of Zion.' Yahweh's day has finally come on Edom, the day when He revenges His people, and when sin too is dealt w...
Isaiah 34:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION Isaiah 34:8 . For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, &c. The Lord has always been mindful of His Church. He is pledged to her defence against the world, and again...
Isaiah 34:8 - 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 34:8 - 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 34:8 - 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 34:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God
Isaiah 34:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 ; Deuteronomy 32:35 ; Deuteronomy 32:41-43 ; Isaiah 26:21 ; Isaiah 35:4 ; Isaiah 49:26 ; Isaiah 59:17 ; Isaiah 59:18 ; Isaiah 61:2 ; Isaiah 63:4 ; Jeremiah 46:10 ;...
Isaiah 34:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — This is the time which God hath fixed, to avenge the cause of his persecuted people.

Isaiah 34:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Isaiah 34:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 34:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 34:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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

Isaiah 34:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 34:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 34:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 34:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 34:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 34:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 34:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 34:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes