Isaiah 34:8

For Jehovah holdeth a day of vengeance, A year of recompense in the cause of Zion.

Noyes Bible

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

7The wild buffaloes shall fall down with them. And the bullocks with the bulls; The hind shall be drunk with blood, And the ground enriched with fat.

9Her streams shall be turned into pitch, And her dust into brimstone, And her whole land shall become burning pitch.

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Cross References

Psalms 94:1O LORD! thou God of vengeance! O thou God of vengeance! shine forth!

Isaiah 13:9Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the sinners out of it.

Isaiah 35:4Say ye to the faint-hearted, “Be ye strong; fear ye not; Behold your God! Vengeance cometh, the retribution of God; He will come and save you!”

Isaiah 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And the helmet of salvation upon his head; He put on garments of vengeance for his clothing, And clad himself with zeal, as with a mantle.

Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, And the year of my deliverance was 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 →

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