Isaiah 34:7
And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Cross References
Numbers 24:8God brings him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and smite [them] through with his arrows.
Job 39:9Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
Psalms 92:10But thou have exalted my horn like the wild ox's. I am anointed with fresh oil,
Jeremiah 50:11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye who plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses,
Ezekiel 32:6I will also water the land, in which thou swim, with thy blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses shall be full of thee.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:2-9
Threatenings against God's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 1 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. 2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all… Read the whole commentary →