Isaiah 34:1

Come near, ye Goyim, to hear; 1 and pay heed, ye peoples; 1 let ha'aretz hear, and all that is therein; 1 the tevel (world), and all things that come forth of it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

2For the ketzef Hashem (wrath of Hashem ) is upon kol HaGoyim, 1 and His chemah (fury, wrath) upon all their tz'va; 1 He hath utterly destroyed them, 1 He hath delivered them to the tevach (slaughter). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1Give ear, O Shomayim, and I will speak; 1 and hear, O Ha'Aretz, the words of my mouth. 1

Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, Hashem; 1 but let them that love Him be 1 as the shemesh in its gevurah. And HaAretz had rest arba'im shanah.

Psalms 49:1(For the one directing. A Mizmor for the Bnei Korach) 1

Psalms 50:1(Mizmor of Asaph) 1 from the mizrach shemesh (rising of sun) unto the going down thereof. 1

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O Shomayim, and give ear, O Eretz, 1 for Hashem hath spoken; 1 I have nourished and brought up banim, 1 and they have rebelled against Me. + 1:2 i.e., willfully flouted My authority. See Isa 53:5,8 1

Isaiah 33:13Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; 1 and, ye that are near, acknowledge My gevurah (might). 1

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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