George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 34:9
Pitch. The soil was sulphureous, and became neglected, (ver. 10.) like the territory of Sodom. The people are now no more, and only a few miserable Arabs pitch their tents there.
Pitch. The soil was sulphureous, and became neglected, (ver. 10.) like the territory of Sodom. The people are now no more, and only a few miserable Arabs pitch their tents there.
AND THE STREAMS THEREOF - The idea here is, that there would be as great and awful a destruction as if the streams everywhere should become pitch or resin, which would be set on fire, and which would...
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 description is no doubt suggested by the volcanic phenomena which accompanied the destruction of the neighbouring cities of the Plain (Genesis 19; Jeremiah 49:18). The division of clauses in the L...
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...
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...
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. THE STREAMS THEREOF ... - images from the overthrow of Sodo...
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...
The region was mostly desert. And it was unsuitable for agriculture. It had become like Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 19:24)....
THE STREAMS THEREOF SHALL BE TURNED INTO PITCH... — The imagery of the punishment which is to fall on Edom is suggested partly by the scenery of the Dead Sea, partly by the volcanic character of Edom...
וְ נֶהֶפְכ֤וּ נְחָלֶ֨יהָ֙ לְ זֶ֔פֶת וַ עֲפָרָ
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...
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into (i) brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. (i) He alludes to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, (Genesis 19:24)....
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...
9._And its streams shall be turned into pitch. _What the Prophet now adds contains nothing new, but describes more fully this desolation. We have formerly explained the reason wily the prophets employ...
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 THE STREAMS THEREOF SHALL BE TURNED INTO PITCH,.... The Septuagint render it, "the valleys"; the word signifying both rivers and valleys, most render it rivers or streams. The Targum is express,...
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. Ver. 9. _And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch._...
_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 the streams thereof, of Idumea, SHALL BE TURNED INTO PITCH, in agreement with the volcanic and sulphurous character of the country near the Dead Sea, AND THE DUST THEREOF INTO BRIMSTONE, which is...
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 STREAMS, which seem most secure from this danger, and much more the land. Idumea shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even utterly destroyed, as it were, by fire, or burning pitch and b...
Isaiah 34:9 streams H5158 turned H2015 (H8738) pitch H2203 dust H6083 brimstone H1614 land H776 burning H1197 ...
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 34:1 These chapters describe God’s final judgment of the world (ch. Isaiah 34:1) and vindication of his people (ch....
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 29:23; Genesis 19:28; Job 18:15; Jude 1:7; Luke 17:29;...
The land — Idumea shall be dealt with, as Sodom and Gomorrah were....