Isaiah 34:1

Come near, ye nations, to hear. And hearken, ye peoples. Let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof, the world, and all things that come forth from it.

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In The King James Version

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

In Context

2For LORD has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them. He has delivered them to the slaughter.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Psalms 49:1Hear this, all ye peoples. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God, LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 33:13Hear, ye who are far off, what I have done, and ye who are near, acknowledge my might.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:1

In this chapter we have the fatal doom of all the nations that are enemies to God's church and people, though Edom only is mentioned, because of the old enmity of Esau to Jacob, which was typical, as much as that more ancient enmity of Cain to Abel, and flowed from the original enmity of the serpent to the seed of the woman. It is probable that this prophecy had its accomplishment in the great desolations made by the Assyrian army first, or rather by Nebuchadnezzar's army some time after, among those nations that… Read the whole commentary →

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