Isaiah 34:5-8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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 reeks with blood and is glutted with fat, but the victims slaughtered in this sacrifice are the Edomites, commoners (Isaiah 34:6) and aristocrats (Isaiah 34:7) alike; for it is the day of Yahweh's vengeance in the controversy He has with Edom for the wrongs she has inflicted on Zion.

Isaiah 34:6 f. The animals in Isaiah 34:6 represent the common people, those in Isaiah 34:7 the chiefs and nobles. Bozrah: Jeremiah 49:13 *.

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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.