Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 34:8
For [it is] the day of the LORD’s vengeance, [and] the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
8. Comp. ch. Isa 61:2, Isa 63:4; Jer 50:28; Jer 51:6; Jer 51:11.
the controversy of Zion ] with Edom.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For it is the day of the Lords vengeance – A time when Yahweh will take vengeance.
The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion – The time when he will recompense, that is, punish those who have had a controversy with Zion.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion – “The year of recompense to the defender of the cause of Zion”] As from dun, din, a judge; so from rub, rib, an advocate, or defender; Judici Sionis: Syriac.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
This is the time which God hath long since appointed and fixed, to avenge the cause of his oppressed and persecuted people against all their enemies.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8. recompenses for the controversyof Zionthat is, the year when God will retaliate on those whohave contended with Zion. Her controversy is His. Edom hadthought to extend its borders by laying hold of its neighbor’s landsand has instigated Babylon to cruelty towards fallen Judah (Psa 137:7;Eze 36:5); therefore Edom shallsuffer the same herself (Lam 4:21;Lam 4:22). The final winding upof the controversy between God and all enemies of Him and His peopleis also foreshadowed (Isa 61:2;Isa 63:4; Isa 66:14-16;Mal 4:1; Mal 4:3;2Th 1:7-9; Rev 11:18;Rev 18:20; Rev 19:2).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For [it is] the day of the Lord’s vengeance,…. The time which he has appointed to take vengeance on antichrist, his 1260 days, or years; being up, in which he is to reign; these being expired, the time is come for the Lord to avenge the blood of his saints; see
Re 18:20:
[and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion; the church of God, which has been for many ages abused and injured by the antichristian powers, for which the Lord will have a controversy with them; he will appear in favour of his people, and plead the cause of Zion, and recompense their enemies for all the injuries they have done them; then they that have led into captivity shall go into captivity, and they that have killed with the sword shall be killed with it,
Re 13:10 this will be a time of double recompence; and therefore perhaps the word is used in the plural number; it will be the time of rewarding antichrist as he has rewarded others; and it will be the time of the dead, that they shall be judged, and rewards given to God’s servants the prophets, Re 18:6. The Targum is,
“the year of recompence, to take vengeance of judgment for the injury of Zion.”
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Thus does Jehovah avenge His church upon Edom. “For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense, to contend for Zion. And the brooks of Edom are turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land becomes burning pitch. Day and night it is not quenched; the smoke of Edom goes up for ever: it lies waste from generation to generation; no one passes through it for ever and ever.” The one expression, “to contend for Zion,” is like a flash of lightning, throwing light upon the obscurity of prophecy, both backwards and forwards. A day and a year of judgment upon Edom (compare Isa 61:2; Isa 63:4) would do justice to Zion against its accusers and persecutors ( rbh , vindicare , as in Isa 51:22). The everlasting punishment which would fall upon it is depicted in figures and colours, suggested by the proximity of Edom to the Dead Sea, and the volcanic character of this mountainous country. The unquenchable fire (for which compare Isa 66:24), and the eternally ascending smoke (cf., Rev 19:3), prove that the end of all things is referred to. The prophet meant primarily, no doubt, that the punishment announced would fall upon the land of Edom, and within its geographical boundaries; but this particular punishment represented the punishment of all nations, and all men who were Edomitish in their feelings and conduct towards the congregation of Jehovah.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
8 For it is the day of vengeance of Jehovah. This verse must be viewed as closely connected with the preceding verses, for it points out the object which the Lord has in view in punishing the Edomites with such severity; and that object is, that he wishes to avenge his people and defend their cause. If, therefore, he had not also assigned this reason, the former statements might have appeared to be obscure or inappropriate; for it would, have been an uncertain kind of knowledge if we did not consider that God, in punishing wicked men, testifies his unceasing affection and care to preserve his own people.
What was formerly said about the Edomites must undoubtedly be extended to the enemies of the Church, for all of them were included by the Prophet under a particular class; and, therefore, in adversity our hearts ought to be supported by this consolation:, that the attacks which we now suffer shall come into judgment before God, who justly claims for himself this office. The Prophet does not only mean that it is in his power to punish wicked men whenever he thinks proper, but, that he reigns in heaven, in order to punish every kind of injustice at the proper time.
But we must attend to the words day and year, by which he reminds us that God does not sleep in heaven, though for a little time he does not come forth, but delays his vengeance till a fit season, that believers may in the meantime “possess their souls in patience,” (Luk 21:19,) and may leave him to govern according to his inscrutable wisdom.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION
Isa. 34:8. For it is the day of the Lords vengeance, &c.
The Lord has always been mindful of His Church. He is pledged to her defence against the world, and against the world-spirit which often intrudes within her pale. Chapter 34 contains a description of the effects of the Divine vengeance in the typical case of Edom; chapter 35 describes the flourishing state of the Church consequent upon the execution of the Divine judgments.
I. There is a parallel between Gods dealings with individuals and society. Such a parallel may be presumed to exist, inasmuch as any society is made up of individuals; and God cares equally for the single and the corporate life. Taking the mass of men, evil dispositions lead to evil deeds, and these to habits, before they are turned to the service of God. God intervenes in the way of judgment; times of judgment are appointed them, foreshadowing a future day of the Lords vengeance.
1. Individual judgments. Gods controversy with Jacob at Peniel, when Jacobs thigh was put out of joint, was but the climax of the Divine vengeance in respect of his sinful past, and became the turning-point of his life. Not only are bad men changed in this way, but good men are made better (Isa. 38:12-14; Lam. 3:3-21; Job. 10:16-20; H. E. I. 5659, 6670, 116). God strikes, that human nature may be laid bare in its depths, and a thorough work of regeneration accomplished, proceeding from within outward. Afflictions do not always soften; but they do so often enough to form a large part of the method of the Divine vengeance.
2. Social and national judgments. Jacob became Israel, and Israel the Church of God, the representative of God on earth, even as Edom, of which Esau, the godless, was the ancestor, is regarded in Scripture as the representative of the world-power. Edom was emphatically the troubler of Israel. Its judgmentsprophetic of greater in the futurewere sent by the Defender of Zion
(1.) To make manifest its sin;
(2.) To show the theocratic character of Israel.
But the Edom, or world-spirit, was in Israel herself; hence the judgments of the Church. The idea of the theocracy was interfered with when Israel wished a king, like the other nations (1Sa. 8:6-7). That could only be entertained by Jehovah if kings held their right to rule direct from Himself. And so He raised up David and Davids line (1Sa. 16:1-13; Gen. 49:8). Hence the institution and perpetuation of the prophetic lineSamuel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, &c.to assert and maintain the idea of the theocracy.
With a grander display of the Divine power this tale has been re-told under the Christian dispensation. Social and national crises are still brought about, in the wise judgment of God, first, to make manifest the sins of communities and nations; and, second, to direct men to the Church of Christ. In times of the Churchs unfaithfulness, apostles, truly apostolic men, reformers, &c., interfere.
II. Antagonism between the Church and the world must end in the defeat and subjugation of the world. Jehovah is the defender of the cause of Zion through the ages. He has espoused the cause of holiness against ungodliness. His people may be dispersed, but the Church does not die out. From the lowest ebb it returns to the flow. The blood of its martyrs becomes seed. Its opponents turn ever feebler. This is seen in their more spasmodic efforts. Its benign influence has extended far; ever larger numbers are being brought under its yoke. The world fights every inch of the ground; but
III. The great day is surely coming.
1. There must come a complete manifestation of the Churchs inherent glory.
(1.) This manifestation will take place by displays of Divine vengeance on the enemies of Zion. This method of the ancient time has not become obsolete.
(2.) The manifestation will not be short-lived, but continue, so that destruction may be succeeded by a realised state of salvation.
(3.) Last of all, there shall be seen the triumph of the Church, when Church and world shall be conterminous, and fulness of blessing be enjoyed. (Chapter 35 still awaits its largest fulfilment.)
CONCLUSION.
1. We have a Gospel of terror to preach to the worlda Gospel of terror, for the Divine vengeance is informed by the greatest heart of love. Is the Church, as some say, becoming less powerful in our time? Let the question at least provoke searchings of heart. God still sends judgments upon unfaithful Churches.
2. Remember, in times of darkness and trial, that the Lord has the deepest interest in His Church. It cannot disappear from the world; but be alive to removing from it causes of weakness.
3. Let us encourage one another in the hope of a time when the Churchs glory shall be fully manifested, when the time of recompenses for the long controversy of Zion shall arrive. Let us work in the Church so as to help to bring about the glad time coming.J. Macrae Simcock.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
2. SHAMBLES
TEXT: Isa. 34:8-17
8
For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9
And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
13
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
14
And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
15
There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
16
Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.
17
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
QUERIES
a.
How could the smoke of Edom go up forever?
b.
What is a night-monster?
c.
What is the book of Jehovah?
PARAPHRASE
Yes, the Lord will bring Zion its day of recompense. Edom has had its day opposing Zion, but the Lord will bring vengeance upon Edom at the proper time. Edoms streams will be fouled with tar and pitch and her soil turned into sulphurous dust and her land into burning, smoldering pools of tar, not fit for habitation. This desolation of Edom will never end. It will be an uninhabited kingdom forever, from one generation to another. It will never again be made a habitable place. The only creatures inhabiting this territory henceforth will be wild, unclean creatures of loneliness and desolationpelicans, porcupines, owls and ravens. God has measured that kingdom by His standards of righteousness and justice, and it is found to be fit only for destruction and desolation. They shall call it, No Kingdom There, and its princes shall soon all be gone. Thorn bushes and weeds will grow up inside its palaces and mansions; its fortresses will fall into complete disuse and be the haunts of wild jackals and ostriches. The animals of the desert will forage there along with wolves and wild goats. The screeching night-thing will settle there and build her nest. The dangerous darting snake and the scavenging vulture will settle there and reproduce their young. Search what the Lord has caused to be written in His book; not one of these predictions shall go unfulfilled because the Lord who revealed the predictions through my mouth is the same Lord whose Spirit will cause the wild animals to inhabit the desolation of Edom. The Lord of Creation has set this territory aside and marked it off to be given to those doleful and despised wild creatures from one generation to another.
COMMENTS
Isa. 34:8-10 WASTE-LAND: The vengeance of the Lord serves also as a recompense for Zion. Edom has vented its age-old hatred (which began with the family feud between Esau and Jacob) upon Zion with an unrelenting passion (cf. Obadiah). Edom stood aloof, rejoiced, and joined in when other pagans plundered Jerusalem. Gods sovereignty and His sovereign program cannot go on being thwarted forever. If His sovereignty is to be verified, rebellion must be punished. Edoms time has come, or is very near. When it happens, Zions cause will be vindicated.
Mal. 1:3, 300 years after Isaiah, says the mountains and the heritage of Esau (Edom) were laid waste and left to the jackals of the desert. Then Mal. 1:4-5 represents the Edomites vowing they will rebuild and the Lord vowing He will tear down again. The territory of Edom was made desolate by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks (Seleucids) in succession. However, there was a brief period of recovery in the time of the Maccabeans, and Edom once again appears as an adversary of Israel of some importance. Gradually, however, Edom had to yield to the superior power of the Romans and was later, overrun and conquered by the Mohammedan Arabs who completed the ruin of the land. It is now, and has been for more than a thousand years, one of the most desolate territories of land upon the face of the earth. Isaiah would hardly seem to demand a literal turning streams into pitch. The present land of once ancient Edom has no perennial rivers. It has numerous wadis (dry stream beds) which sometimes run with torrents when the winter rains flood them. Isaiahs intent, no doubt, is that Edom should be visited with a destruction and desolation so complete it could be likened unto that of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:24; Jer. 49:18). Men have passed through this area again and again since those days and still do, though they all testify to its utter desolateness. The word forever must be understood as hyperbole here.
Isa. 34:11-15 WILD-LIFE: There is some disagreement among translators as to the exact identification of the animals in these verses. The only one generally agreed upon is the raven. The kooth is translated, cormorant, pelican or hawk. The kipod is translated, bittern, hedgehog or porcupine. Whatever their specific genre, the intent of the prophet seems to be to describe only animals that inhabit desolate, deserted places not inhabited by human beings. These forlorn beasts of the desert nights will move in and make this territory their possession. No other creatures will want it. God has measured off this territory for this specific group of unclean animals. The measuring-tape and the plumb-line are tohu and vohu and are the same two words used in Gen. 1:2 and translated waste and void, or confusion and emptiness. In other words God has marked Edom for systematic or planned reduction to chaos. All the nobles (rulers by birth) of Edom will disappear, and none will remain to constitute a kingdom. So the territory will be called, No Kingdom There. Its palaces and cities will be deserted and overgrown with brush and thorns. In Isa. 34:14 the word in Hebrew lyilyith is translated night-monster in the ASV and satyr in the RSV. Some say it is a word with Akkadian root meaning some kind of storm-spirit. Most Hebrew lexicons define it as screech-owl. Lilit was the name of a female demon or wicked fairy, in whom the Assyrians (Akkadians) believeda being thought to vex and persecute her victims in their sleep. The Hebrew word for night is layeloh. Whatever the case, the night-monster or screech-owl is added to the arrow-snake and vulture to indicate a place where dwells every odious, despised, scary creature known. The prophets were poets and used imagery. When so doing they were free to use even the beliefs and superstitions of their contemporaries to intensify the force of their messages.
Isa. 34:16-17 WORD OF THE LORD: Some have said the book of Jehovah was a volume collected of the works of Moses, some of the prophets before Isaiah, and the psalms of David. But there is no evidence of such a collection then. It is better to understand the book to be that of Isaiahs own writings up to that point. Nothing contained in his writings shall fail of fulfillment is the prophets warning, for his writings are the work of Jehovah. Every utterance of his, even in the minute detail of the animals marked to possess Edoms territory, will come to pass, for although the predictions come through the mouth of Isaiah, it shall be the Spirit of the living God which shall bring them to pass. The Lord allots to all the nations of the earth their boundaries (cf. Jer. 27:5 ff). He has now allotted Edom to the unclean beasts and birds which are mentioned. He has marked it desolate (cf. Mat. 23:38). All kingdoms which oppose God are marked for destruction (cf. 1Co. 15:24-28; 1Co. 15:50). Edom is here typical and representative.
QUIZ
1.
How will Edoms judgment be recompense for Zion?
2.
Were Edoms streams literally turned into pitch?
3.
What does the list of these particular animals portray about Edom?
4.
What is the territory of ancient Edom like today?
5.
How could Isaiah be certain his predictions would be fulfilled?
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
(8) The year of recompences for the controversy of Zion . . .The long-delayed day of retribution should come at last. This would be the outcome from the hand of Jehovah for the persistent hostility of the Edomites to the city which He had chosen.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8-10. Day of the Lord’s vengeance Sure as the pillars of God’s throne stand, divine judgment must overtake wrong and wrongdoers, and Zion, or the Church of God, must be vindicated and defended. The ideal of most terrific punishment is found in the terms brimstone and burning pitch; in the unquenchable fire; in the smoke forever ascending, and in the desert gloom and the impassable waste, that befall the land thus visited. These terms, used as mere figures here, are expanded into symbols in the Book of Revelation; symbols answering to the real idea of awful retributions which will fall upon sin, sinners, and all sinful agencies in the world’s last days. Emblematically the land of Edom becomes a wilderness, and, as an antagonistic kingdom, is destroyed forever.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘For it is the day of Yahweh’s vengeance,
The year of recompense in the controversy of Zion.’
Yahweh’s day has finally come on Edom, the day when He revenges His people, and when sin too is dealt with. It is the day when Edom receive recompense for what they have done. This is one of many ‘days of Yahweh’ from the beginning to the end of time, each one of which mirrors the final great day of Yahweh in the final judgment.
‘The year of recompense in the controversy of Zion.’ This particularly applies the vengeance to their attitude towards God’s people. The ‘controversy of Zion’ may refer to their taking advantage of Judah’s weak condition (2Ch 28:17; Joe 3:19); the controversy over their rights to land which Edom have taken or had given to them by Assyria, which they are seen by Jerusalem as having no right to; and their general hostility towards Israel. Or to the original controversy when Edom refused passage to the children of Israel (Num 20:14-21). Or indeed to all the continued controversy between such neighbours. Or it may signify the continual controversy between the people of God and the world arising from their distinctive faith. With regard to Edom God is now settling the matter once and for all.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Isa 34:8 For [it is] the day of the LORD’S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Ver. 8. For the controversy of Zion, ] i.e., Of the Church, both Jewish and Christian, saith Piscator. compare Rev 18:2
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Isa 34:8-15
Isa 34:8
“For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.”
This speaks of the absolute certainty of the final judgment. Yes, men can count on it; there will be a Day of the Lord.
Isa 34:9-15
“And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.”
“Streams into pitch … dust into brimstone …” (Isa 34:9). “These words, along with the haunted ruins of Isa 34:11 ff bring both Sodom and Babylon to mind”; and they provide part of the evidence here that the final judgment is the theme. However, it is evident that both the earthly judgments against Edom and that of the Final Day are mingled in the description. This is true because other pictures of the final destruction of Adam’s race declare that “no living thing whatever” will be left (Zep 1:1-3).
The judgments against Sodom and Gomorrah and that of Babylon are both typical of the Final Day; and for that reason, the comparison suggested here enables us to classify the judgment against Edom in the same way. Like Babylon, Edom will be nothing but a waste land generation after generation. This, of course, has already happened.
The word rendered “night-monster” in Isa 34:14 comes from a proper name in the Hebrew, Lilith, which is of uncertain interpretation. There is some possibility that it might refer to a demon. Peake believed that all of the creatures mentioned here as dwelling in deserted and wasted Edom were “Satyrs,” that is, “gods, or gods that looked like goats, demonic creatures.”
“Isa 34:15, then is meant to mirror the total absence of any human beings.” And, in view of the first three verses of Zephaniah, where God promised to destroy every living creature, it could be that only spiritual beings such as demons in the service of the devil would inhabit places such as Babylon and Edom were doomed to be.
Isa 34:8-10 WASTE-LAND: The vengeance of the Lord serves also as a recompense for Zion. Edom has vented its age-old hatred (which began with the family feud between Esau and Jacob) upon Zion with an unrelenting passion (cf. Obadiah). Edom stood aloof, rejoiced, and joined in when other pagans plundered Jerusalem. Gods sovereignty and His sovereign program cannot go on being thwarted forever. If His sovereignty is to be verified, rebellion must be punished. Edoms time has come, or is very near. When it happens, Zions cause will be vindicated.
Mal 1:3, 300 years after Isaiah, says the mountains and the heritage of Esau (Edom) were laid waste and left to the jackals of the desert. Then Mal 1:4-5 represents the Edomites vowing they will rebuild and the Lord vowing He will tear down again. The territory of Edom was made desolate by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks (Seleucids) in succession. However, there was a brief period of recovery in the time of the Maccabeans, and Edom once again appears as an adversary of Israel of some importance. Gradually, however, Edom had to yield to the superior power of the Romans and was later, overrun and conquered by the Mohammedan Arabs who completed the ruin of the land. It is now, and has been for more than a thousand years, one of the most desolate territories of land upon the face of the earth. Isaiah would hardly seem to demand a literal turning streams into pitch. The present land of once ancient Edom has no perennial rivers. It has numerous wadis (dry stream beds) which sometimes run with torrents when the winter rains flood them. Isaiahs intent, no doubt, is that Edom should be visited with a destruction and desolation so complete it could be likened unto that of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24; Jer 49:18). Men have passed through this area again and again since those days and still do, though they all testify to its utter desolateness. The word forever must be understood as hyperbole here.
Isa 34:11-15 WILD-LIFE: There is some disagreement among translators as to the exact identification of the animals in these verses. The only one generally agreed upon is the raven. The kooth is translated, cormorant, pelican or hawk. The kipod is translated, bittern, hedgehog or porcupine. Whatever their specific genre, the intent of the prophet seems to be to describe only animals that inhabit desolate, deserted places not inhabited by human beings. These forlorn beasts of the desert nights will move in and make this territory their possession. No other creatures will want it. God has measured off this territory for this specific group of unclean animals. The measuring-tape and the plumb-line are tohu and vohu and are the same two words used in Gen 1:2 and translated waste and void, or confusion and emptiness. In other words God has marked Edom for systematic or planned reduction to chaos. All the nobles (rulers by birth) of Edom will disappear, and none will remain to constitute a kingdom. So the territory will be called, No Kingdom There. Its palaces and cities will be deserted and overgrown with brush and thorns. In Isa 34:14 the word in Hebrew lyilyith is translated night-monster in the ASV and satyr in the RSV. Some say it is a word with Akkadian root meaning some kind of storm-spirit. Most Hebrew lexicons define it as screech-owl. Lilit was the name of a female demon or wicked fairy, in whom the Assyrians (Akkadians) believed-a being thought to vex and persecute her victims in their sleep. The Hebrew word for night is layeloh. Whatever the case, the night-monster or screech-owl is added to the arrow-snake and vulture to indicate a place where dwells every odious, despised, scary creature known. The prophets were poets and used imagery. When so doing they were free to use even the beliefs and superstitions of their contemporaries to intensify the force of their messages.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Isa 26:21, Isa 35:4, Isa 49:26, Isa 59:17, Isa 59:18, Isa 61:2, Isa 63:4, Deu 32:35, Deu 32:41-43, Psa 94:1, Jer 46:10, Mic 6:1, Luk 18:7, Rom 2:5, Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9, 2Th 1:6-10, Rev 6:10, Rev 6:11, Rev 18:20, Rev 19:2
Reciprocal: Isa 9:18 – wickedness Isa 13:6 – for the day Isa 66:6 – a voice of the Lord Jer 25:31 – A noise Jer 51:26 – desolate for ever Jer 51:37 – become Jer 51:56 – the Lord Eze 13:5 – the day Hos 4:1 – for Joe 3:4 – swiftly Luk 21:22 – the days Act 2:20 – great
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A fourth reason for this slaughter is that the Lord will take vengeance on those who have trodden down Zion. He will act for His people against those who have cursed them (cf. Gen 12:3). Even though we do not know when this will happen, God has a timetable for this judgment and will keep to it.