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 the Edomites to the city which He had chosen.
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Isaiah 34:8
8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.