Isaiah 34:7
And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
8For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.
Cross References
Numbers 24:8God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite them through with his arrows.
Job 39:9Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? or will he abide by thy crib?
Psalms 92:10But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 50:11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder mine heritage, because ye are wanton as an heifer that treadeth out the corn, and neigh as strong horses;
Ezekiel 32:6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.
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 →