Isaiah 34:8
(For a day of vengeance [is] to YHWH, || A year of recompenses for Zion’s strife),
Literal Standard Version
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 32:35Vengeance and retribution [are] Mine, || At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their calamity, || And things prepared for them have hastened.
Psalms 94:1God of vengeance—YHWH! God of vengeance, shine forth.
Isaiah 13:9Behold, the Day of YHWH comes, || Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, || To make the land become a desolation, || Indeed, He destroys its sinning ones from it.
Isaiah 35:4Say to the hurried of heart, “Be strong, || Do not fear, behold, your God; vengeance comes, || The repayment of God, || He Himself comes and saves you.”
Isaiah 59:17And He puts on righteousness as a breastplate, || And a helmet of salvation on His head, || And He puts on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, || And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.
Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance [is] in My heart, || And the year of My redeemed has 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 →