Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
An habitation of dragons - (note, Isaiah 3:21.)
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
An habitation of dragons - (note, Isaiah 3:21.)
Verse Isaiah 34:13. _AND THORNS SHALL COME UP IN HER PALACES_] ועלו בארמנותיה _vealu bearmenotheyha_; so read all the ancient versions. _A COURT FOR OWLS._] יענה _yaanah_, the _ostrich_, from ענה _a...
AND THORNS ... - (see the note at Isaiah 5:6) IT SHALL BE AN HABITATION OF DRAGONS - On the meaning of the word ‘dragons,’ see the note at Isaiah 13:22. COURT FOR OWLS - A place of resort, a residenc...
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)_...
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...
COME UP IN. climb....
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...
The mention of nobles and princes naturally leads to the palaces and castles. _dragons … owls_ JACKALS … OSTRICHES (R.V.). See on ch. Isaiah 13:21 f....
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,...
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...
DRAGONS.. OWLS] RV 'jackals.. ostriches': cp. Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22.;...
4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....
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...
Isaiah names many animals and birds in the original language of these verses (and also in verse 11). But to identify animals and birds in the Bible with modern names is a very uncertain task! • The a...
AN HABITATION OF DRAGONS, AND A COURT FOR OWLS... — The wild creatures named are identified, as elsewhere, with _“_jackals” (“wild dogs,” Delitzsch) and “ostriches.”...
וְ עָלְתָ֤ה אַרְמְנֹתֶ֨יהָ֙ סִירִ֔ים קִמֹּ֥ושׂ וָ...
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...
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...
_Dragons, Thannim, chap. xiii. 22. (Haydock) --- Ostriches, or swans._...
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...
13._In her palaces she shall bring forth thorns. _He pursues the same subject; for he describes a frightful desolation, by which splendid houses and palaces are levelled to the ground, or reduced to a...
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,...
AND THORNS SHALL COME UP IN HER PALACES,.... Where their kings and princes dwelt, and kept their courts, popes and cardinals; here will be the tokens of God's curse, as thorns are, these being the peo...
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls. Ver. 13. _A court for owls._] Or, Ostriches....
_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...
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, growing up in the midst of their ruins, NETTLES AND BRAMBLES IN THE FORTRESSES THEREOF, where formerly magnificent castles stood; AND IT SHALL BE AN HABITATION...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
OWLS: Or, ostriches: _Heb._ daughters of the owl...
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...
This is another mark and evidence of extreme desolation, as it is also, HOSEA 9:6....
Isaiah 34:13 thorns H5518 up H5927 (H8804) palaces H759 Nettles H7057 brambles H2336 fortresses H4013 habitation H5116
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...
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...
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...
_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. ...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:13 THORNS... NETTLES AND THISTLES recalls the curse of Genesis 3:17....
SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...
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...
Hosea 9:6; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 32:14;...