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Isaiah 34:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. "
Isaiah 34:2
Verse in Context
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1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.
2 For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
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Isaiah 34:1
"Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it."
Isaiah 34:3
"Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood."
Isaiah 34:4
"All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree."
Isaiah 34:5
"For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment."
Isaiah 34:6
"The LORD’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom."
Isaiah 34:7
"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."
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