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Isaiah 34:5

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Isaiah 34:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 34:5

Theological / Devotional

My sword. The sword of the Lord symbolizes His judgments upon the wicked. Compare Deut. 32:41, 42; Jer. 46:10; Rev. 19:13, 15, 21.

Idumea. Or, Edom (see on Eze. 35:15). Often all the enemies of God’s people are typified by some one nation whose hatred and cruelty had been particularly bitter. Nations thus singled out were Egypt, Babylon, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. Closely related to the Jews, the Edomites always manifested a particular spite against them (see on Isa. 34:1). At the time of an Assyrian invasion Edom had possibly joined the Assyrian and had vented its wrath upon Judah, and thus the name of Edom is here associated with that of Assyria in Isaiah’s pronouncements of doom. For divine judgments on Edom as symbolic of the great day of God, see on ch. 63:1–6.

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