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Verse Isaiah 34:11. _THE CORMORANT_] קאת _kaath, the pelican_, from
the root קיא _ki, to vomit_, because it is said she swallows
shell-fish, and when the heat of her stomach has killed the fish, she
v...
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BUT THE CORMORANT - This and the following verses contain a
description of the desolations of Edom in language remarkably similar
to that employed in the account of the destruction of Babylon Isaiah
1...
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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)_...
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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...
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CONFUSION. See note on Isaiah 24:10.
CONFUSION... EMPTINESS. Hebrew. _tohu... bohu._ Reference to
Pentateuch (Genesis 1:2), "without form and void". waste and desolate.
Only there, here, and Jeremiah...
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_the cormorant and the bittern_ Zephaniah 2:14. R.V. has "the pelican
(Leviticus 11:18; Psalms 102:6) and the porcupine"; for the latter see
on ch....
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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...
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AND THE STREAMS THEREOF, &C.— The prophet, whose copiousness of
speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen
figures, an image of the land and city desolated by war, wasted by
fire,...
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2. SHAMBLES
TEXT: Isaiah 34:8-17
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For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the
cause of Zion.
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And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
thereof into...
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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 confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
THE CORMORANT...
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34:11 emptiness. (e-36) 'Waste ... emptiness.' see ch. 45.18; Genesis
1:2 ; Jeremiah 4:23 ....
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The terrible situation of the land called Edom was again like that of
the world in Genesis 1:2.
THE END OF EDOM
V12 No *Edomite leaders remain to choose a king. All Edom’s
officials have disappeare...
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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...
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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 men, is a favourite one with Isaiah (comp. Isaiah 13:...
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וִ ירֵשׁ֨וּהָ֙ קָאַ֣ת וְ קִפֹּ֔וד וְ
יַנְשֹׁ֥
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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...
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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...
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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) confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
(k) Read...
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_Line. Intimating entire destruction, Lamentations ii. 8., and 4 Kings
xi. 13. (Calmet) --- Yet God will not punish more than people deserve.
(Menochius)_...
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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 human heart, void of grace; and the dreadful conditio...
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11._Therefore the pelican and the owl shall possess it. _As to these
animals there are various opinions, and Hebrew commentators are not
agreed about them; but the design of the Prophet is evident, wh...
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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,...
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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 fowls according to the law, of which see Leviticus 11:1...
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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 confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Ver. 11. _The co...
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_And the streams thereof_ The rivers, which seem most secure from the
judgment here threatened; _shall be turned into pitch_, &c. The
country shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even utter...
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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 of the desolation wrought agreeing with that in other
pa...
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IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
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CORMORANT:
Or, pelican...
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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...
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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 be entirely possessed by those creatures which delig...
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Isaiah 34:11 pelican H6893 porcupine H7090 possess H3423 (H8804) owl
H3244 raven H6158 dwell H7931 (H8799) out...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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. ...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:11 CONFUSION... EMPTINESS. These words
first appear in Genesis 1:2 (“without form”; “void”),
describing the world before God ordered it and filled it wi
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SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE
CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...
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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...
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2 Kings 21:13; 2 Samuel 8:2; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 14:23; Lamen
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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 or plummet joined to it, not to build them, but to
ma...