Isaiah 34:7

34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

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. unicorns: or, rhinocerots soaked: or, drunken

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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.

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.

34:8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

What does Isaiah 34:7 mean?

Isaiah 34:7 is a verse in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include רְאֵם (rᵉʼêm), יָרַד (yârad), פַּר (par). It connects to 8 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

Hebrew interlinear

And

the

unicornsרְאֵםrᵉʼêm/reh-ame'/H7214a wild bull (from its conspicuousness)

shall

come

downיָרַדyârad/yaw-rad'/H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)

with

them,

and

the

bullocksפַּרpar/par/H6499a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)

with

the

bulls;אַבִּירʼabbîyr/ab-beer'/H47{mighty (spoken of God)}

and

their

landאֶרֶץʼerets/eh'-rets/H776the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

shall

soakedרָוָהrâvâh/raw-vaw'/H7301to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)

with

blood,דָּםdâm/dawm/H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)

and

their

dustעָפָרʻâphâr/aw-fawr'/H6083dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud

made

fatדָּשֵׁןdâshên/daw-shane'/H1878to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)

with

fatness.חֶלֶבcheleb/kheh'-leb/H2459fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part

unicorns:

or,

rhinocerots

soaked:

or,

drunken

Commentary on Isaiah 34:7

HENRY_FULL · Isaiah 34:7

Lord : but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. On the other hand those are miserable whom he condemns, however men may applaud them, and cry them up; whom he condemns he condemns to the second death. 2. We are with God as we are with men, as we have our conversation in this world. Our Father judges of his children very much by their conduct one to another; and therefore a good man, that is merciful, and charitable, and does good, draws out favour from the Lord by his prayers; but a malicious man, that devises wickedness against his neighbours, he will condemn, as unworthy of a place in his kingdom. 3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 14:1

For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:30

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. they that: or, governors: Heb. corners

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. a perverse: Heb. a spirit of perversities

Isaiah 21:9

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Habakkuk 3:16

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. invade: or, cut them in pieces

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

1 Corinthians 11:11

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Topics

Edomites, the Unicorn War

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Isaiah 34:7.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Isaiah 34:5

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Isaiah 55:10

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Jeremiah 46:10

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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What does Isaiah 34:7 say?

Isaiah 34:7 (King James Version) reads: "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. unicorns: or, rhinocerots soaked: or, drunken"

Is Isaiah 34:7 in the Old or New Testament?

Isaiah 34:7 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Isaiah.

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