Isaiah 34:1
Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 32:1Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
Judges 5:31So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.
Psalms 49:1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
Psalms 50:1A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
Isaiah 33:13Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are near know 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 →