Isaiah 34:8
(For a day of vengeance [is] to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
Young's Literal Translation
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time — doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
Psalms 94:1God of vengeance — Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
Isaiah 13:9Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.
Isaiah 35:4Say to the hastened of heart, 'Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
Isaiah 59:17And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance [for] clothing, And is covered, as [with] an upper-robe, [with] zeal.
Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath 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 →