Isaiah 34:8
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. unicorns: or, rhinocerots soaked: or, drunkenFor it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
KJV
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
What does Isaiah 34:8 mean?
Isaiah 34:8 is a verse in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יוֹם (yôwm), יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh), נָקָם (nâqâm). It connects to 13 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.
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Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. a double: Heb. an heart and an heart
Psalms 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: proud: Heb. great
Psalms 36:2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. until: Heb. to find his iniquity to hate
Psalms 41:6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms 41:7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. my: Heb. evil to me
Isaiah 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. the unrighteous: Heb. the man of iniquity abundantly: Heb. multiply to pardon
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Matthew 2:3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Matthew 26:4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
2 Corinthians 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. dishonesty: Gr. shame
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Other verses that share key original-language words with Isaiah 34:8.
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: the day: Heb. between the day and between the night
Genesis 2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 3:14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. cool: Heb. wind
Genesis 4:3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. in process: Heb. at the end of days
Genesis 5:11And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:14And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Frequently asked questions
What does Isaiah 34:8 say?
Isaiah 34:8 (King James Version) reads: "For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion."
Is Isaiah 34:8 in the Old or New Testament?
Isaiah 34:8 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Isaiah.
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