Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 34:14
screech owl. Hebrew. Lilith. Used to-day of any being of the night, as the English "bogy" is used. Charms are used against it to-day in Palestine.
a place, &c.. a roost.
screech owl. Hebrew. Lilith. Used to-day of any being of the night, as the English "bogy" is used. Charms are used against it to-day in Palestine.
a place, &c.. a roost.
Verse Isaiah 34:14. _THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT_] ציים _tsiyim_, the _mountain cats_. - Bochart. _WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND_] איים _aiyim_, the _jackals_. _THE SATYR_] שעיר _seir_, the _hairy one...
THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT - There is in the original here a paronomasia, which cannot be conveyed in a translation. The word rendered, ‘wild beasts of the desert’ (ציים _tsı̂yı̂ym_), is rendered b...
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...
_wild beasts the desert … wild beasts of the island … satyr_ See on ch. Isaiah 13:21 f. _the shrich owl_ The Hebr. is _Lîlîth_, a fem. formation from _Iáil_"night." Render with Cheyne: THE NIGHT-HAG....
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...
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest....
34:14 lilith (g-23) Or 'night-spectre.'...
WILD.. ISLANDS] RV 'wolves' (Isaiah 13:22). SATYR] see on Isaiah 13:21. SCREECH OWL] Heb. _Lilith,_ the name of a night-demon or vampire RV'night-monster.'...
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...
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 WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT... — Better, _wild cats_ or _hyenas shall meet wolves._ The nouns that follow belong, apparently, to the region of mythical zoology. The English “satyr” expresses fairly...
וּ פָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת ־אִיִּ֔ים וְ שָׂעִ֖
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...
The wild beasts of the desert shall also (n) meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest....
Monsters. Literally, "Ass-centaurs." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "fishermen shall find islands," chap. xiii. 21. --- Ones. Goats. --- Lamia. Hebrew lilith. Chaldean, "owl," the bird of Minerva, or the Moon,...
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...
14._And the wild beasts shall meet with the satyrs. _(20) These animals are thought by some commentators to mean fauns, by others screechowls or goblins, and by others satyrs; and it is not fully agre...
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,...
THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT SHALL ALSO MEET WITH THE WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLANDS,.... In Rome, and take up their abode there; of these creatures, the first of which the Targum renders monstrous ones,...
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. V...
_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...
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, the marten rivaling the jackal in his attempts to find food, AND THE SATYR, spirit of the desert, SHALL CRY TO HIS FEL...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
BEASTS: _ Heb._ Ziym WILD BEASTS: _ Heb._ Iiym SHRICHOWLE: Or, night monster...
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 SATYR SHALL CRY TO HIS FELLOW: SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:21". SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:22". THE SCREECH OWL ALSO SHALL REST THERE, because there shall be no men left to disturb or affright them, ISAI...
Isaiah 34:14 desert H6728 meet H6298 (H8804) jackals H338 goat H8163 bleat H7121 (H8799) companion H7453 creature...
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...
Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22...