Isaiah 34:1

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.

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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 LORD is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Judges 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 33:13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

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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