Isaiah 34:1

Draw near, you⌃ nations; and listen, you⌃ princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.

Judges 5:31Thus let all your enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength.

Psalms 49:1The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. 1

Psalms 50:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your great mercy; and according to the multitude of your compassions blot out my transgression. 1

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have + 1:2 Or, 'set me at nothing.' rebelled against me.

Isaiah 33:13They that are afar off shall hear what I have done; they that draw near shall know my strength.

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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