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Isaiah 34:5

The *Lord does not attack with an actual sword. This is a picture in words to describe the *Lord’s act of judgement.

• Relations between the nations called Israel and Edom were always uneasy. This was because of the strain between Jacob (later called Israel) and his brother Esau, the *ancestor of the *Edomites (see Genesis 25:30 and Genesis 32:11).

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See also Isaiah 34:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 34:5. _FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN_ - "For my sword is made bare in the heavens"] There seems to be some impropriety in this, according to the present reading: "My sword is ma...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN - A sword is an instrument of vengeance, and is often so used in the Scriptures, because it was often employed in capital punishments (see the note at Isaiah 27:...

  • 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

    In preparation for the slaughter of earth Yahweh's sword has drunk its fill of wrath in heaven. Now, charged and sharpened with its fury, it descends to execute the ban upon Edom (_mg.)._ His sword re...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OF MY CURSE: i.e.. have devoted....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _my sword_(see on ch. Isaiah 27:1) _shall be bathed_ Better: IS DRUNK; i.e. not "with blood" (which suggests an idea foreign to this passage) but "with fury," in preparation for its work, which is on...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The slaughter of the inhabitants of Edom....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called _the great day of the Lord's vengeance,_ a mighty slaughter shall be...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. FOES WILL FALL, CHAPTER 34 1. SLAUGHTER TEXT: Isaiah 34:1-7 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. MY SWORD - (.) Or else, knife for sacrifice; because God does not here...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:5 bathed (d-5) Or 'sated,' as Jeremiah 31:14 ,Jeremiah 31:25 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL BE BATHED] RV 'hath drunk its fill.' IDUMEA] RV 'Edom.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN... — Literally, _hath drunk to the full._ The words find an echo in Deuteronomy 32:41, and Jeremiah 46:10. There, however, the sword is soaked, or made drunk with bl...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־רִוְּתָ֥ה בַ † שָּׁמַ֖יִם חַרְבִּ֑י הִנֵּה֙...

  • 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

    For my sword shall be (d) bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of (e) my curse, to judgment. (d) I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to de...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Heaven. Casting down the rebel angels. (St. Jerome) --- The resolution to destroy the Idumeans, for their cruelty to the Jews, has been taken long ago. All these expressions allude to the last judgmen...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call the Reader's attention to that striking one folded up in them...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE SWORD BATBED IN HEAVEN_ ‘For My sword shall be bathed in heaven.’ Isaiah 34:5 I. ALL GOOD STRUGGLE IN THE WORLD IS REALLY GOD’S BATTLE, AND OUGHT TO RECOGNISE ITSELF AS SUCH.—Every special vic...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._For my sword is made drunken in the heavens. _He says that the “sword” of the Lord is bloody, as extensive slaughter makes the “swords” wet with gore; and, in order to give greater weight to his st...

  • 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

    FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN,.... That is, the sword of the Lord, as it is called in the next verse Isaiah 34:6, and it is he that is speaking; it designs the vengeance of the Lord, the puni...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. Ver. 5. _For my sword shall be bathed in heaven._] Heb., Drunk, or drench...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 34:5. Reference to the terrible destruction of the angels in heaven. Isa. 34:16...

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

    _For my sword shall be bathed_ In the blood of these people; _in heaven_ Where God dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there decreed and appointed. Or, it shall, as it were, be sh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For My sword shall be bathed in heaven, intoxicated, as it were, as it prepares to execute His punishment; BEHOLD, IT SHALL COME DOWN UPON IDUMEA, as in a drunken frenzy, AND UPON THE PEOPLE OF MY CUR...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of his patience, so all must expect to fee...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL BE BATHED IN THE BLOOD OF THESE PEOPLE; Heb. _is or shall be made drunk. In heaven_; either, 1. In my church, which is called _heaven_, DANIEL 8:10 REVELATION 4:1, REVELATION 12:1, in and agains...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 34:5 sword H2719 bathed H7301 (H8765) heaven H8064 down H3381 (H8799) Edom H123 people H5971 curse...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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, Wit...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    IDUMEA See; (Isaiah 34:1); (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 36:1). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 34:5 The text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible. It reveals celestial regions, in which there are also great struggles going on. It lifts up our eyes t...

  • 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

    _My sword shall be bathed in heaven_ THE SWORD BATHED IN HEAVEN The text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible. It reveals celestial regions, in which there are...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:1 These chapters describe God’s final judgment of the world (ch. Isaiah 34:1) and vindication of his people (ch....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:5 EDOM represents “all the nations” (v. Isaiah 34:2) under God’s judgment (see...

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 16:22; 2 Peter 2:14; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:12; Deu

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bathed — In the blood of these people. Heaven — Where God dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there decreed and appointed. Idumea — Upon the Edomites, who, tho' they were nearly r...

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