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Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

Isaiah 34:16

Isa. 34:16. The book of the Lord here meant is this Book, or the book of this prophecy wherein the things in the two foregoing verses are mentioned, as appears by comparing these words with the foregoing and following. When it is said here, "Seek ye out the book of the Lord," etc., the meaning is, hereafter, when the event shall prove whether this prophecy be true or no, then read this book and examine this prophecy and compare it with the event and see if anything fails. See if any one of these "doleful creatures" fails of possessing Idumea and Bozrah, and every one with their mate - i.e., see if the prophecy be not most exactly fulfilled. - Corol. Hence the Books of the Prophets should be regarded by the Church of God as part of the Canon of Sacred Scriptures as well as the Book of Moses. They are the "books of the Lord," or Biblia.

Chapter s 37-41

Isa. 37:38

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See also Isaiah 34:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 34:16. _MY MOUTH_ - "For the mouth of JEHOVAH"] For הוא _hu_, five MSS., (three ancient,) read יהוה _Jehovah_, and another is so corrected; so likewise the _Septuagint_. Two editions hav...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SEEK YE OUT - Lock carefully at the prediction, and its fulfillment. This seems to be addressed to the inhabitants of that land, or to any who might doubt, or be disposed to examine. They were invited...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)_...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEEK. Search. THE BOOK OF THE LORD. This proves there was. book in existence, which could be searched. See App-47. FAIL. be missing. Hebrew. _'adar._ Not the same word as in Isaiah 19:5 (see note the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse is remarkable in several respects. It seems to be a solemn assurance that the foregoing prediction shall be fulfilled literally and down to the smallest details; and must therefore be addres...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK, &C.— This period contains the confirmation of the preceding sentence; wherein the prophet, to convict the hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain comple...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SEEK, etc.] An invitation to future generations to compare the event with the prediction, and note its precise fulfilment. FAIL] RV 'be missing.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This is the only reference in the Bible to the ‘Book of the *Lord’. And it is unknown elsewhere....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The general purpose of Isaiah’s words is to convince his readers that the *Lord will carry out his judgements completely. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, capital of the country called I...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD... — The phrase is an exceptional one. Isaiah applies that title either to this particular section, or to the volume of his collected writings. When the time of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    דִּרְשׁ֨וּ מֵֽ עַל ־סֵ֤פֶר יְהוָה֙ וּֽ קְרָ֔א

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Seek ye out of the (p) book of the LORD, and read: no one of (q) these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my (r) mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. (p) That is, in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Read what I have written. --- The other. All these beasts will be there, (Calmet) or all these declarations will be verified. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the Lord seems to refer to the prediction, when the fulfillment arrives. As if the Lord had said, "Let such as behold the desolations here spoken of look back, and mark how I predicted them, and...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._Inquire at the book of Jehovah. _By “the book of the Lord” some understand this prophecy, as if he had enjoined them to read attentively this prediction; for not even in the minutest point will it...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD, AND READ,.... Joseph Kimchi interprets this of the book of the law of Moses; which being consulted, it will appear that punishment was threatened to be inflicted o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. Ver. 16. _Seek ye out of the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seek ye out of the book of the Lord_ Here the prophet confirms the preceding prediction; and, “to convict hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain completion of his prophecy.” H...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, the prophecies as preserved by the command of Jehovah, who inspired them, and read, such searching being commanded to this day; NO ONE OF THESE SHALL FAIL, every p...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD, AND READ; when this judgment is executed, if you peruse this book of holy writ, and particularly this prophecy of mine, you will find that all things shall exactly...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 34:16 Search H1875 (H8798) book H5612 LORD H3068 read H7121 (H8798) one H259 these H2007 fail...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord_ THE SCRIPTURES THE BOOK OF THE LORD, TO BE DILIGENTLY STUDIED I. THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IS THE BOOK OF THE LORD. II. THE SCRIPTURE IS A BOOK TO BE READ; carefully...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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. ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:16 THE BOOK OF THE LORD. His decrees—in this case, as revealed by Isaiah (see Psalms 139:16;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE CERTAINTY OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS Isaiah 34:16. _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, &c._ The text occurs midway between a series of predicted judgments pronounced on Edom as the representative of th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A CALL TO STUDY Isaiah 34:16. _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, and read, &c._ On the supposition that a Divine revelation is given to man, its most convenient method will be that of a permanent...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 1:19; Amos 3:7; Daniel 10:21; Deuteronomy 31:21; Genesis 6:17;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Seek — When this judgment is executed, if you pursue this prophecy, you will find, that all things exactly come to pass, as I have told you. His — My spirit, (such sudden changes of persons being freq...

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