Isaiah 34:3
1 Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
2 The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
- KJV
- Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- WEB
- Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
- ASV
- Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- DARBY
- And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- BLB
- And their slain will be thrown out, and [from] their corpses their stench will rise, and the mountains will flow with their blood.
- ÅB
- Og de som blir drept, skal slenges bort, og stanken av deres døde kropper skal stige opp, og fjellene skal flyte av deres blod.
- OTB
- Deres drepte skal bli kastet ut, og deres lik vil avgi en stank; fjellene skal bli gjennomtrukket av deres blod.
- B1930
- Og de som blir drept, skal slenges bort, og stanken av deres døde kropper skal stige op, og fjellene skal flyte av deres blod.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joel 2:20
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
Read in contextEzekiel 39:4
On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:7
And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
Read in context2 Kings 9:35–37
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:1–2
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
Read in contextEzekiel 14:19
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
Read in contextEzekiel 32:5–6
I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
Read in contextRevelation 16:3–4
And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.
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