Isaiah 34:1

O nations and peoples: draw near, and listen, and pay attention! Let the earth and its fullness hear, the entire world and all its offspring.

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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 the indignation of the Lord is over all the nations, and his fury is over all their armies. He has put them to death, and he has given them over to slaughter.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1“Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Judges 5:31O Lord, so may all your enemies perish! But may those who love you shine with splendor, as the sun shines at its rising.”

Psalms 49:1A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,

Psalms 50:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David,

Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me.

Isaiah 33:13“You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”

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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