Isaiah 34:1

Come close, you nations, and listen! You peoples, pay attention! Hear these words everyone who lives on earth, and all that comes from it!

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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

2The Lord's anger is against all the nations and his fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them; he will have them slaughtered.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1Heaven, listen as I speak; Earth, hear what I'm saying.

Judges 5:31May all your enemies die like this, Lord, but may those who love you shine like the sun in all its brilliance!” The land was at peace for forty years.

Psalms 49:1Listen to this, everyone! Pay attention, people of the world—

Psalms 50:1The Lord, the Almighty God, speaks! He summons everyone on earth, from the east to the west.

Isaiah 1:2Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 33:13Those of you who are far away, recognize what I have accomplished; those of you who are nearby, recognize how powerful I am.”

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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