Isaiah 34:7

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

The unicorns - Hebrew, reem; conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and preeminence (see note, ). The Arabian rim is two-horned: it was the oryx (the leucoryx, antelope, bold and pugnacious). The translation 'unicorn' - i:e., one-horned-does not accord with the Hebrew, and has led to vain searches for such a one-horned animal as is described by Ctesias ('Indica,' 4: 25-27), AElian ('Nat. Anim.,' 16: 20), Aristotle ('Hist. Anim.,' 2: 2, sec. 8), Pliny ('Nat. Hist.' 8: 21). , Hebrew, is, 'his horns are like the horns of a unicorn.' The two horns of the reem are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Mauasseh. The pachydermatous (rhinoceros) was unclean by the law, and would not be mentioned here as a sacrifice. The skipping of the reem, too, is against its being the rhinoceros. But strength, agility, ferocity, and fitness for sacrifice, meet together in the urus, or 'wild ox.' Here is meant the portion of the Edomites which was strong and warlike.

Shall come down - rather, fall down slain (Lowth).

With them - with the "lambs and goats," the less powerful Edomites ().

The bullocks with the bulls - the young and old Edomites: all classes.

Their dust - ground.