Isaiah 34:11

2 Kings 21:13; 2 Samuel 8:2; Isaiah 13:20-22; Isaiah 14:23; Lamentations 2:8; Malachi 1:3; Malachi 1:4; Revelation 18:2; Revelation 18:21-23; Zephaniah 2:14

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 34:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the cormorant - This and the following verses contain a description of the desolations of Edom in language remarkably similar to that employe...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But the cormorant (k) and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of (l...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Edom is near to the Dead Sea, and the country is volcanic, and these facts suggest this lurid picture of judgment. Edom's rivers will be turned to pi...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

confusion. See note on Isaiah 24:10 . confusion... emptiness. Hebrew. tohu... bohu. Reference to Pentateuch ( Genesis 1:2 ), "without form an...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

11. Therefore the pelican and the owl shall possess it. As to these animals there are various opinions, and Hebrew commentators are not agre...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confus...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the streams thereof, &c.— The prophet, whose copiousness of speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen figures, an ima...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of co...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. Cp. 1 Isaiah 3:10 .
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cormorant.. bittern] RV 'pelican.. porcupine.' Stones] RV 'plummet,' implying that the work of destruction will be as thorough as that of buildin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it... — The picture of a wild, desolate region, haunted by birds and beasts that shun the abode of...
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...
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 wo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we read these scriptures through the medium of the gospel, and drop the similitudes in the realities, we shall find an exact description of the hu...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ,.... The word for "cormorant" is rendered a "pelican", in Psalms 102:6 they were both unclean...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confus...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the streams thereof The rivers, which seem most secure from the judgment here threatened; shall be turned into pitch , &c. The country sha...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against God's Enemies. B. C. 720....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it, the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; the inhabitants shall be wholly cut off, and it shall...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The All-Embracing Nature of the Judgment and Its Permanence ( Isaiah 34:9-17 ). It is important to note that God's judgment on Edom will be all-em...
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 J...
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...
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 ; Is...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But the cormorant, the pelican, and the bittern, the porcupine, shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it, the description o...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Dwell — It shall be entirely possessed by those creatures which delight in deserts and waste places. Stretch — He shall use the line, or the stone...

¹¹ But the cormorantb and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 34:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 34:11