Isaiah 34:3

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. THEIR SLAIN ALSO SHALL BE CAST OUT - unburied (). THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MELTED WITH THEIR BLOOD - "melted:" washed away as with a descending torrent....

3._Their slain shall be cast out. _By this circumstance he shews that it will be a great calamity, for if a few persons are “slain,” they are committed to the earth; but when so great a multitude is slain at one time, that there are not left as many as are necessary for burying them, there is no thought of interment, and therefore the air is polluted by _the stench of their carcases. _Hence it is evident, that God is sufficiently powerful to lay low innumerable armies. Perhaps, also, the Prophet intended to heighten the picture of the judgment of God, because to the slaughter of the nations there will be added shame and disgrace, so that they shall be deprived of the honor and duty of burial _And the mountains shall melt on account of their blood. _Another figure of speech is employed to shew more fully the extent of the slaughter, for the “blood” will flow from “the mountains,” as if th...

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 feel his resentment. The description of bloodshed suggests tremendous ideas of the Divine judgments. Idumea here denotes the nations at enmity with the church; also the kingdom of antichrist. Our thoughts cannot reach the horrors of that awful season, to those found opposing the church of Christ. There is a time fixed in the Divine counsels for the deliverance of the church, and the destruction of her enemies. We must patiently wait till then, and judge nothing before the time. Through Christ, mercy is exercised to every believer, consistently with justice, and his name is glorified....

THEIR SLAIN ALSO SHALL BE CAST OUT - They would lie unburied. The slaughter Would be so extensive, and the desolation would be so entire, that there would not remain enough to bury the dead (compare the notes at Isaiah 14:19). AND THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MELTED WITH THEIR BLOOD - The expression here is evidently hyperbolical, and means that as mountains and hills are wasted away by descending showers and impetuous torrents, so the hills would be washed away by the vast quantity of blood that would be shed by the anger of Yahweh....

SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1; Isaiah 35:1.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 34:1 and Isaiah 35:1. are generally recognized as constituting a distinct prophecy, complete in itself, and only slightly connected with what precedes. The passage is, as Bishop Lowth observes, "an entire, regula

THEIR SLAIN ALSO SHALL BE CAST OUT,.... Upon the open fields, and there lie unburied, and become meat for the fowls of heaven, who are invited to them as to a supper, even the supper of the great God, Revelation 19:17: AND THEIR STINK SHALL COME UP OUT OF THEIR CARCASSES; so that they shall become loathsome and abominable to the living, and none shall care to come near thereto bury them; an emblem of their loathsome and abominable sins, the cause of this destruction: AND THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MELTED WITH THEIR BLOOD; an hyperbolical expression, denoting the great number of the slain upon the mountains, and the great quantity of blood shed there; which should run down in large streams, and carry part of them along with it, as large and hasty showers of rain wash away the earth, and carry it along with them; such an hyperbole see in...

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)_ This is one of the darkest Chapter s in the Bible. A worldwide judgment is described such as has never taken place in the history of the world. The indignation of the Lord is then upon all nations and upon their armies. Like chapter 33, it tells of the great judgments to come....

All nations are summoned to hear their doom. Yahweh is infuriated against them, He has pronounced the ban (pp. 99, 114, Deuteronomy 2:34 *, Joshua 6:17 *) upon them. The foul odour of their exposed and putrefying corpses shall fill the air, the mountains be dissolved with their blood. The sky shall be rolled up like a scroll, and the stars drop off it (Revelation 6:13 f.) like a fading leaf from the vine or fig-tree. ISAIAH 34:4. HOST OF HEAVEN: read hills; the line is parallel to the last clause of Isaiah 34:3....

MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MELTED WITH THEIR BLOOD. Figure of speech _Hyperbole_. So Isaiah 34:4 and Isaiah 34:5....

A Prophecy of Vengeance on Edom, and the future blessedness of Israel The oracle consists of two sharply contrasted eschatological pictures, one of judgment, the other of redemption. i. The first (ch. 34) commences with a lurid description of the terrors of the last judgment, which is a universal judgment on the nations of the world (Isaiah 34:1). But this passes abruptly (Isaiah 34:5) into a threat of special and fearful vengeance on Edom for its implacable hostility to the people of God (Isaiah 34:8). An indiscriminate slaughter of its population is decreed (5 8); and the land shall be turned into a perpetual desolation, haunted by desert beasts and creatures of demon kind (9 17)....