The *Lord does not attack with an actual sword. This is a picture in words to describe the *Lord’s act of judgement.
• Relations between the nations called Israel and Edom were always uneasy. This was because of the strain between Jacob (later called Israel) and his brother Esau, the *ancestor of the *Edomites (see Genesis 25:30 and Genesis 32:11).
Verse Isaiah 34:5. _FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN_ - "For my sword is made bare in the heavens"] There seems to be some impropriety in this, according to the present reading: "My sword is ma...
FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN - A sword is an instrument of vengeance, and is often so used in the Scriptures, because it was often employed in capital punishments (see the note at Isaiah 27:...
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)_...
In preparation for the slaughter of earth Yahweh's sword has drunk its fill of wrath in heaven. Now, charged and sharpened with its fury, it descends to execute the ban upon Edom (_mg.)._ His sword re...
OF MY CURSE: i.e.. have devoted....
_my sword_(see on ch. Isaiah 27:1) _shall be bathed_ Better: IS DRUNK; i.e. not "with blood" (which suggests an idea foreign to this passage) but "with fury," in preparation for its work, which is on...
The slaughter of the inhabitants of Edom....
FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called _the great day of the Lord's vengeance,_ a mighty slaughter shall be...
D. FOES WILL FALL, CHAPTER 34 1. SLAUGHTER TEXT: Isaiah 34:1-7 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that...
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. MY SWORD - (.) Or else, knife for sacrifice; because God does not here...
34:5 bathed (d-5) Or 'sated,' as Jeremiah 31:14 ,Jeremiah 31:25 ....
4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....
SHALL BE BATHED] RV 'hath drunk its fill.' IDUMEA] RV 'Edom.'...
MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN... — Literally, _hath drunk to the full._ The words find an echo in Deuteronomy 32:41, and Jeremiah 46:10. There, however, the sword is soaked, or made drunk with bl...
כִּֽי ־רִוְּתָ֥ה בַ † שָּׁמַ֖יִם חַרְבִּ֑י הִנֵּה֙...
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...
For my sword shall be (d) bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of (e) my curse, to judgment. (d) I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to de...
Heaven. Casting down the rebel angels. (St. Jerome) --- The resolution to destroy the Idumeans, for their cruelty to the Jews, has been taken long ago. All these expressions allude to the last judgmen...
I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call the Reader's attention to that striking one folded up in them...
_THE SWORD BATBED IN HEAVEN_ ‘For My sword shall be bathed in heaven.’ Isaiah 34:5 I. ALL GOOD STRUGGLE IN THE WORLD IS REALLY GOD’S BATTLE, AND OUGHT TO RECOGNISE ITSELF AS SUCH.—Every special vic...
5._For my sword is made drunken in the heavens. _He says that the “sword” of the Lord is bloody, as extensive slaughter makes the “swords” wet with gore; and, in order to give greater weight to his st...
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,...
FOR MY SWORD SHALL BE BATHED IN HEAVEN,.... That is, the sword of the Lord, as it is called in the next verse Isaiah 34:6, and it is he that is speaking; it designs the vengeance of the Lord, the puni...
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. Ver. 5. _For my sword shall be bathed in heaven._] Heb., Drunk, or drench...
Isa. 34:5. Reference to the terrible destruction of the angels in heaven. Isa. 34:16...
_For my sword shall be bathed_ In the blood of these people; _in heaven_ Where God dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there decreed and appointed. Or, it shall, as it were, be sh...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
For My sword shall be bathed in heaven, intoxicated, as it were, as it prepares to execute His punishment; BEHOLD, IT SHALL COME DOWN UPON IDUMEA, as in a drunken frenzy, AND UPON THE PEOPLE OF MY CUR...
1-8 Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of his patience, so all must expect to fee...
SHALL BE BATHED IN THE BLOOD OF THESE PEOPLE; Heb. _is or shall be made drunk. In heaven_; either, 1. In my church, which is called _heaven_, DANIEL 8:10 REVELATION 4:1, REVELATION 12:1, in and agains...
Isaiah 34:5 sword H2719 bathed H7301 (H8765) heaven H8064 down H3381 (H8799) Edom H123 people H5971 curse...
‘For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold it will come down on Edom, And on the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, Wit...
IDUMEA See; (Isaiah 34:1); (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 36:1). _...
Isaiah 34:5 The text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible. It reveals celestial regions, in which there are also great struggles going on. It lifts up our eyes t...
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...
_My sword shall be bathed in heaven_ THE SWORD BATHED IN HEAVEN The text draws back the curtain which separates the visible world from the invisible. It reveals celestial regions, in which there are...
_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....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 34:5 EDOM represents “all the nations” (v. Isaiah 34:2) under God’s judgment (see...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:22; 2 Peter 2:14; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:12; Deu
Bathed — In the blood of these people. Heaven — Where God dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there decreed and appointed. Idumea — Upon the Edomites, who, tho' they were nearly r...