Isaiah Chapter 34

God’s Judgement on the nations

34:1 Come close, O nations גּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, to hear; and listen y’all people: Let the earth, and all that fills it hear; the world and all its offspring.
34:2 Because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is enraged against all the nationsעַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִם ‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, and furious against all their armies: He has completely destroyed them, He has handed them over to slaughter.
34:3 Their slain will be thrown out, and their stench will rise from their corpses, the mountains will melt from their blood.
34:4 And all the hostצְבָא‎
Transliteration:ṣāḇā’ Pronunciation: tsaw-baw’ From the Hebrew root word translated “hosts” is tzva’ which is a term that describes “military units.” They have specific functions to carry out in a military campaign. The two places these military units are located is in the sky and on the earth. Continue reading at: click here of the heavens הַשָּׁמַיִם ‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here will dissolve, and the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here will be rolled up like a scroll: and all their hostצְבָאָם‎
Transliteration:ṣᵊḇā’ām From the Hebrew root word translated “hosts” is tzva’ which is a term that describes “military units.” They have specific functions to carry out in a military campaign. The two places these military units are located is in the sky and on the earth. Continue reading at: click here will shrivel, like the grape-leaf falls from the vine, or like a shriveled fig from the fig tree.
34:5 Because my sword has drunk its fill in the heavensבַשָּׁמַיִם ‎
Pronunciation: ḇaššāmayim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here: see, it will descend on Edomאֱדוֹם
was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east. Most of its former territory is now divided between present-day southern Israel and Jordan. Edom appears in written sources relating to the late Bronze Age and to the Iron Age in the Levant also another name for Esau the brother of Jacob and Esua’s descendants to judge them, the people I have doomed to destruction.
34:6 The sword of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is filled with blood, it is gorged with fat, filled with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has a sacrifice in Bozrah (meaning sheepfold or fortress), and a great slaughter in the land of Edomאֱדוֹם
was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east. Most of its former territory is now divided between present-day southern Israel and Jordan. Edom appears in written sources relating to the late Bronze Age and to the Iron Age in the Levant also another name for Esau the brother of Jacob and Esua’s descendants.
34:7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls; and their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil enriched with fat.
34:8 Because it is the day of vengeance for YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and the year of retribution for the strife of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here.
34:9 And its (Edom) streams will be turned into tar, and its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning tar.
34:10 that will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever: from generation to generation it will lie in waste; no one will pass through it ever again.

Desolation of all enemies

34:11 But the hawk and the bittern will occupy it; the eagle owls too and the raven will live in it: and he will draw against it a line of emptiness, and plumb bobs of void.
34:12 Their noblemen will call out to the kingdom, but none will be there, and all her leaders will become nothingness.
34:13 Its palaces will sprout weeds, thorns and thistles in its fortresses : it will become a lair for jackals, and a place for ostriches.
34:14 Wildcats and hyenas will meet there; and billy-goats call to each other, there Lilith* The name of a female demon (Rashi) or a nocturnal bird (Ibn Ezra). – From the Artscroll English Tanach too will relax; the screech owl also will rest there, and find for rest for herself.
34:15 There will the bittern and lay and hatch her eggs, gathering them together under her shadow: there will the vultures also be gathered, each one with its mate.

Surety of prophecy

34:16 Search in the book of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info ‎click here, and read it: Not one of these shall be missing, none will be without its mate: Because My mouth it has commanded, and its spirit it has gathered them together.
34:17 And he has cast the lot for them, his hand measured out their shares: they will possess it forever, from generation to generation will they live in it.