George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 34:15
Ericius. Hebrew, " kippoz, (Haydock) hath its nest." It may denote the serpent, acontias. (Bochart) --- All this shews the desolation of the country.
Ericius. Hebrew, " kippoz, (Haydock) hath its nest." It may denote the serpent, acontias. (Bochart) --- All this shews the desolation of the country.
Verse Isaiah 34:15. _THE GREAT OWL_] קפוז _kippoz_, the ακοντιας, or _darter_, a serpent so called because of its suddenly leaping up or _darting_ on its prey. Probably the _mongoz_ or _ichneumon_ may...
THERE SHALL THE GREAT OWL - (קפוז _qı̂pôz_). Gesenius supposes that this is the arrow-snake, so called from its darting or springing, in the manner of the rattle-snake - from an obsolete root to draw...
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...
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 great owl_ THE ARROWSNAKE as in R.V. _gather under her shadow_ The expression is almost meaningless, when applied to a very small snake. Duhm, by a clever emendation, reads "shall lay and hatch...
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...
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. THE GREAT OWL - qipowz (H7091); or, the...
4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....
GREAT OWL] RV 'arrowsnake.'...
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...
THE GREAT OWL... — Better, _the arrow snake. _...
שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפֹּוז֙ וַ תְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּ...
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...
There (o) shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. (o) Signifying that Idumea would be a...
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...
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,...
THERE SHALL THE GREAT OWL MAKE HER NEST,.... Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, say that "kippoz" here is the same with "kippod", rendered "bittern" in Isaiah 34:11 but Aben Ezra takes them to be two dif...
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. Ver. 15. _There shall the great owl make...
_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...
There shall the great owl, rather, the arrow-snake, MAKE HER NEST, AND LAY, AND HATCH, AND GATHER UNDER HER SHADOW, cherishing her young in the shadow of the ruins; THERE SHALL THE VULTURES ALSO BE GA...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
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...
THE GREAT OWL; whether this or what other creature is meant by this Hebrew word, the learned reader may find largely discoursed in my Latin Synopsis upon this place; for others, it may suffice to know...
Isaiah 34:15 snake H7091 nest H7077 (H8765) lay H4422 (H8762) hatch H1234 (H8804) gather H1716 ...
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. ...
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...
Deuteronomy 14:13; Ezekiel 31:6; Isaiah 46:4; Jeremiah 17:11;...