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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 34:17

And He, Jehovah, hath cast the lot for them, for all the wild beasts of the desert, and His hand hath divided it unto them by line, distributed it to them, given it to them for a possession; they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein, these doleful creatures occupying the. land which had been the pride of Edom. Thus Jehovah ever is the Protector of His children over against all enemies.

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See also Isaiah 34:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM - He hath assigned to them the land of Edom to be occupied by them as their portion. This language is taken from the fact that countries were commonly apportioned, pa...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Addressed to the world: Jews and Gentiles involved (Isaiah 34:1)_ 2. _The shaking of the earth and the heavens (Isaiah 34:2)_ 3. _The day of vengeance (Isaiah 34:9)_...

  • 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 pitch, its dust to brimstone, the land shall be a smo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The fate of the land of Edom is next represented under two incompatible images, first that of a perpetual conflagration (Isaiah 34:9), and second that of a dreary solitude, peopled only by "doleful cr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The eternity of the judgment is again emphasised (Isaiah 34:10)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK, &C.— This period contains the confirmation of the preceding sentence; wherein the prophet, to convict the hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain comple...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. SHAMBLES TEXT: Isaiah 34:8-17 8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. HE HATH CAST THE LOT - as...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:17 it (a-15) i.e. the land of Edom....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    God, who assigns to nations their territories (Acts 17:26), has allotted Edom to the desert creatures for ever. SENTENCE ON THE NATIONS. BLESSINGS IN STORE FOR GOD'S PEOPLE These Chapter s are now ge...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The general purpose of Isaiah’s words is to convince his readers that the *Lord will carry out his judgements completely. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, capital of the country called I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 34 GOD WILL PUNISH HIS ENEMIES v1 Come, all you nations! Gather here and listen. Let...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM..._ — i.e.,_ hath allotted, or assigned it as by a formal deed of transfer, _to_ the savage beasts who are to be its future possessors. The thought is the same as that of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הֽוּא ־הִפִּ֤יל לָהֶן֙ גֹּורָ֔ל וְ יָדֹ֛ו

  • 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 Assyria and Babylon. The imagery employed is borrowed f...

  • 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 world-wide desolation which this chapter presents. Th...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he hath cast the (s) lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell in it. (s) He has given the beasts...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the Lord seems to refer to the prediction, when the fulfillment arrives. As if the Lord had said, "Let such as behold the desolations here spoken of look back, and mark how I predicted them, and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! here is a very solemn chapter, full of awful threatenings: from beginning to end. And, as we read what is here said, may we not, though from the mouth of one, who while professing...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._And he hath cast the lot for them. _He says that to those wild beasts and monsters there hath been granted a secure and permanent habitation, from which they cannot be easily banished or driven ou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM,.... The Targum adds, "by his word:'' AND HIS HAND HATH DIVIDED IT UNTO THEM BY LINE; the same adds, "by his will.'' The allusion is to the dividing of the land o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. Ver. 17. _And he hath cast t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seek ye out of the book of the Lord_ Here the prophet confirms the preceding prediction; and, “to convict hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain completion of his prophecy.” H...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-17 Those who aim to ruin the church, can never do that, but will ruin themselves. What dismal changes sin can make! It turns a fruitful land into barrenness, a crowded city into a wilderness. Let u...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He hath divided the land to them, as it were, by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 34:17 cast H5307 (H8689) lot H1486 hand H3027 divided H2505 (H8765) line H6957 possess H3423 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ALL-EMBRACING NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT AND ITS PERMANENCE (ISAIAH 34:9). It is important to note that God's judgment on Edom will be all-embracing and permanent. Nothing will survive it. It is an i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Day of the Lord and Armaggedon. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There is a day fixed in the divine counsels for the deliverance of God's people and cause in the earth and the d...

  • 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 Jeremiah 25. They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre, Edom...

  • 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 for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom. ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE CERTAINTY OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS Isaiah 34:16. _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, &c._ The text occurs midway between a series of predicted judgments pronounced on Edom as the representative of th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Come near, ye nations, to hear; hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation (Isaiah 34:1-2) A term that is us...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 13:19; Acts 17:26; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 34:10; Joshua 18:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Divided — He hath divided the land to them, as it were by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites....

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