Chapter 34:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Isaiah 34
God's fury and wrath against his church's enemies, ver. 1-10. Their land utterly desolate, ver. 11-15. The certainly hereof, and duration, ver. 16, 17.
Verse 2. All nations - Not only upon the Assyrians, but on all enemies of
my people.
Verse 3. Cast out - Into the fields.
Verse 4. Dissolved - The sun, moon, and stars. So great shall be the
confusion and consternation of mankind, as if all the frame of the
creation were broken into pieces. It is usual for prophetic writers,
both in the Old and New Testament, to represent great and general
calamities, in such words and phrases, as properly agree to the day
of judgment; as on the contrary, the glorious deliverances of
God's people, in such expressions, as properly agree to the
resurrection from the dead.
Verse 5. Bathed - In the blood of these people. Heaven - Where God
dwells; in which this is said to be done, because it was there
decreed and appointed. Idumea - Upon the Edomites, who, tho'
they were nearly related to the Israelites, yet were their implacable
enemies. But these are named for all the enemies of God's church,
of whom they were an eminent type. The people - Whom I have
cursed, and devoted to utter destruction, as the word properly
signifies.
Verse 6. The sword - The metaphor is taken from a great glutton, who is
almost insatiable. Rams - By lambs, and goats, and rams, he
means people of all ranks and conditions, high and low, rich and
poor. Bozrah - A chief city of Edom, and a type of those cities
which should be most opposite to God's people.
Verse 7. The unicorns - It is confessed, this was a beast of great strength
and fierceness; and it is used in this place to signify their princes
and potentates, who shall be humbled and cast down. Them -
With the lambs, and goats, and rams. Fatness - With the fat of the
slain sacrifices, mingled with it.
Verse 8. For - This is the time which God hath fixed, to avenge the
cause of his persecuted people.
Verse 9. The land - Idumea shall be dealt with, as Sodom and Gomorrah
were.
Verse 10. For ever - It shall remain as a spectacle of God's vengeance to
all succeeding ages.
Verse 11. Dwell - It shall be entirely possessed by those creatures which
delight in deserts and waste places. Stretch - He shall use the line,
or the stone or plummet joined to it, not to build them, but to mark
them out to destruction, as workmen commonly use them to mark
what they are to pull down.
Verse 12. None - They shall not find any willing to undertake the
government. Nothing - Shall have no courage or strength left in
them.
Verse 16. Seek - When this judgment is executed, if you pursue this
prophecy, you will find, that all things exactly come to pass, as I
have told you. His - My spirit, (such sudden changes of persons
being frequent here) hath brought all these creatures together, as
he formerly brought the creatures to Adam, and to Noah, by an
instinct which he put into them.
Verse 17. Divided - He hath divided the land to them, as it were by lot
and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites.
Chapter 34:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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