Isaiah 34:7

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. THE UNICORNS - Hebrew, reem; conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and preeminence (see note, ). The Arabian rim is two-horned: it was the oryx (the leucoryx, antelope, bold and pugnacious). The translation 'unicorn' - i:e., one-horned-does not accord with the Hebrew, and has led to vain searches for such a one-horned animal as is described by Ctesias ('Indica,' 4: 25-27), AElian ('Nat. Anim.,' 16: 20), Aristotle ('Hist. Anim.,' 2: 2, sec. 8), Pliny ('Nat. Hist.' 8: 21). , Hebrew, is, 'his horns are like the horns of a unicorn.' The two horns of the reem are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Mauasseh. The pach...

7._And the unicorns shall come down with them. _This verse is closely connected with the former, for he adds nothing new, but proceeds with the same figure, amplifying what he had said about “rams” and “goats,” to which he adds not only _bullocks _but wild and savage beasts. It amounts to this, that the vengeance of heaven will be so unrelenting as to spare neither age nor rank, and to mark; for slaughter even cruel giants, notwithstanding their silly fierceness, just as if one were preparing a sacrifice which consisted indiscriminately of every kind of animals. It ought not to be thought strange that lambs are mingled with cruel beasts, for the term “lambs” is not employed in commendation of their mildness or harmlessness, but is applied comparatively to those who are feeble and who belong to the ordinary rank, which lays them under the necessity of having some appearance of modesty. Al...

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....

Verse Isaiah 34:7. _THE UNICORNS SHALL COME DOWN_] ראמים _reemim_, translated _wild goats_ by Bishop _Lowth_. The ראם _reem Bochart_ thinks to be a species of wild goat in the deserts of Arabia. It seems generally to mean the rhinoceros. _WITH BLOOD _- "With their blood"] מדמם _middamam_; so two ancient MSS. of _Kennicott's_ the _Syriac_, and _Chaldee_....

AND THE UNICORNS - Margin, ‘Rhinoceros’ (ראמים _r__e__'ēmı̂ym_ from ראם _r__e__'êm_). This was evidently an animal well known in Palestine, since it is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament (Numbers 23:22; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9; Psalms 22:21; Psalms 29:6; Psalms 92:10, in all which places it is translated unicorn, or un

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

AND THE UNICORNS SHALL COME DOWN WITH THEM,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature as the unicorn; or the buffaloes, as m others; these "shall fall", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, they shall be slain, as well as the rest; meaning, that along with the common soldiers, and inferior officers, the general officers should fall; and so the Targum, "and the mighty shall be slain with them.'' R. Abraham Seba says n he read in a certain book, that the word here should not be read ראמים, "unicorns", but רומיים, "the Romans shall come down", c.: AND THE BULLOCKS WITH THE BULLS: or, as the Targum, "and the rulers with the princes'' the same with the kings, captains, and mighty men in Revelation 19:18: and their lan

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....

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 reeks with blood and is glutted with fat, but the victims slaughtered in this sacrifice are the Edomites, commoners (Isaiah 34:6) and aristocrats (Isaiah 34:7) alike; for it is the day of Yahweh's vengeance in the controversy He has with Edom for the wrongs she has inflicted on Zion. ISAIAH 34:6 F. The animals in Isaiah 34:6 represent the common people, those in Isai

UNICORNS: or, rhinocerots. Hebrew. _re'emin._ SOAKED. drunken. Figure of speech _Hyperbole._...