CHAPTER 34 GOD'S JUDGMENT ON EDOM AND THE SURROUNDING NATIONS. Now Isaiah suddenly turns his attention away from God's people to Edom and the nations. Always after being lifted up, he comes solidly down to earth. For in this chapter God declares that His day is about to come on Edom and the nations... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Come near, you nations, to hear, And listen you peoples. Let the earth hear, and its fullness, The world and all things that come forth from it.' The nations of the world are all called to come near and witness this judgment about to be described. Indeed not only the nations but also the whole... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, And fury against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them (put them under the Ban, devoted them), He has delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also will be cast out, And the stink of their carcases will come up, And the mountains... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And all the host of heaven will be dissolved, And the heavens will be rolled together as a scroll, And all their host will fade away, As the leaf fades from the vine, And as a fading leaf from the fig tree.' This kind of vivid language in respect of heavenly bodies comes regularly on Isaiah's l... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold it will come down on Edom, And on the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the wild oxen will come down with them, And the bullocks with the mighty ones, And their land will be drunk with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.' Not only Edom but their wild neighbours will be included in the sacrifice, pictured in terms of wild oxen, representing their wilder... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For it is the day of Yahweh's vengeance, The year of recompense in the controversy of Zion.' Yahweh's day has finally come on Edom, the day when He revenges His people, and when sin too is dealt with. It is the day when Edom receive recompense for what they have done. This is one of many ‘days of... [ Continue Reading ]
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 indication of the consequences of treachery and apostasy. Analysis. a And its streams will be turne... [ Continue Reading ]