1 Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein. 2 For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [his] anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter. 3 And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their [ill] savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood. 4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree. 5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea. 7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat. 8 For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment. 9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day; 10 and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations, 11 and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it. 12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed. 13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches. 14 And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of] rest. 15 There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces. 16 They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them. 17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], Ye shall inherit [the land] for ever: they shall rest on it [through] all generations.
Isaiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Isaiah 34 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Corinthians 10:26; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 41:1; Micah 6:1–2
- 2 Zephaniah 3:8; Jeremiah 25:15–29; Amos 1:1–2; Joel 3:9–14; Zechariah 14:12–16
- 3 Joel 2:20; Ezekiel 39:4; Isaiah 34:7; 2 Kings 9:35–37; Jeremiah 8:1–2
- 4 Revelation 6:13–14; Matthew 24:29; Ezekiel 32:7–8; Joel 3:15; Psalm 102:25–26
- 5 Jeremiah 46:10; Isaiah 63:1; Malachi 1:4; Amos 1:11–12; Jeremiah 49:7–22
- 6 Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:40; Deuteronomy 32:14; Jeremiah 50:27
- 7 Psalm 68:30; Numbers 23:22; Jeremiah 50:27; Jeremiah 50:11; Numbers 24:8
- 8 Isaiah 63:4; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 35:4; Jeremiah 46:10; Psalm 94:1
- 9 Deuteronomy 29:23; Revelation 21:8; Psalm 11:6; Luke 17:29; Revelation 19:20
- 10 Revelation 19:3; Isaiah 66:24; Malachi 1:3–4; Isaiah 13:20; Revelation 18:18
- 11 Lamentations 2:8; 2 Kings 21:13; Zephaniah 2:14; Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 14:23
- 12 Isaiah 3:6–8; Ecclesiastes 10:16–17; Isaiah 41:24; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 13 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22; Malachi 1:3; Psalm 44:19; Hosea 9:6
- 14 Isaiah 13:21–22
- 15 Deuteronomy 14:13
- 16 Psalm 33:9; Joshua 1:8; Matthew 5:18; Isaiah 30:8; Psalm 33:6
- 17 Isaiah 34:10; Acts 17:26; Jeremiah 13:25; Isaiah 17:14; Psalm 78:55
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Yea, both heaven and earth shall pass away, but Thy Words shall not pass away. Because the scroll shall be rolled together, and the grass over which it was spread shall with its goodliness pass away; but Thy Word remaineth for ever, which now appeareth unto us in the dark image of the clouds, and through the glass of the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Listen to Esaias, saying, And the heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all the stars shall fall, as leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)