Isaiah 34:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The unicorns, Heb. the reemim. But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fiction in the judgment of the learned, or a rhinoceros, or a wild ox or bull, it is needless to trouble the ordinary reader about it; and the learned may consult my Latin Synopsis upon Numbers 23:22 about it. It is confessed that it was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is certain that it is metephorically used in this place, to signify their princes and potentates. Shall come down; shall be humbled and cast down. The LXX. and Syriac render it, they shall fall down, as such beasts do when they have received a deadly blow. With them; with the lambs, and goats, and rams, last mentioned, Isaiah 34:6. With fatness; with the fat of the slain sacrifices, which shall he mingled with it.

Isaiah 34:7

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.