Isaiah 34:5-8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

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 them of the Lord's sacrifice in Bozrah. Is there not in this an allusion to the same person and sacrifice, as the prophet in a vision relates to us in the sixty third chapter? I beg the Reader to turn to it, and pause over the subject. Who but Christ, is the sacrifice of

Jehovah? Who but Christ was seen coming from Bozrah, in his dyed garments of blood? And was not this the day of vengeance, and the year of the Lord's redeemed?

Isaiah 34:5-8

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.

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: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

7 And the unicornsa shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

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