Isaiah 34:7
What does Isaiah 34:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 34:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Context
v.6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
v.7This passage
v.8For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 33:17
The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
- Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
- Numbers 23:22
God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
- Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
- Psalms 92:10
But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.
- Job 39:9
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
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