Isaiah 34:1-17

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Summary

• The destruction of the present heavens and earth. What happens to Edom may represent what happens to all the nations that are hostile to God and his people.

Details and/or Comments

• Isaiah 34-35 - Judgment of nations (ch. 34) vs. joy of the redeemed (ch. 35). Barren vs. bounty.

Scripture

Isaiah 34:1-17

• Ecological Disaster

(See chapter 35 for the blessings of God's kingdom.)

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Isa 34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.	Pay attention, all!
Isa 34:2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. Isa 34:3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood. Isa 34:4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.	Utter judgment, even the stars of the sky will be involved.
Isa 34:5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment. Isa 34:6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. Isa 34:7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.	All nations are involved (see previous verses), but Edom is singled-out, perhaps representative of all. The judgment will be like a huge sacrifice.
Isa 34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. Isa 34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch. Isa 34:10 It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.	A picture of eternal judgment
Isa 34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. Isa 34:12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. Isa 34:13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. Isa 34:14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. Isa 34:15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.	An empty place (the formerly-inhabited nation), the haunt of wild animals. Figuratively speaking (as far as the impact of human habitation is concerned), conditions will be reversed back to the "formless and empty" way they were at the beginning of creation. Formless and Empty
Isa 34:16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. Isa 34:17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.	“Forever” - not in the sense of eternity, but in the sense of it becoming their permanent inheritance.

Meanwhile, in the land of the redeemed... (see chapter 35).

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