Isaiah 34:8
For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
Psalms 94:1The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.
Isaiah 13:9Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 35:4Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save you.
Isaiah 59:17He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come.
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 →