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Isaiah
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Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it. See also: 1 Corinthians 10:26Isaiah 41:1Isaiah 1:2For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. See also: Zephaniah 3:8Jeremiah 25:15-29Zechariah 14:12-16Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood. See also: Joel 2:20Isaiah 34:7Ezekiel 39:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. See also: Revelation 6:13-14Matthew 24:29Ezekiel 32:7-8For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment. See also: Jeremiah 46:10Amos 1:11-12Malachi 1:4The LORD’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. See also: Isaiah 63:1Jeremiah 49:13Deuteronomy 32:14The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. See also: Psalms 68:30Numbers 23:22Jeremiah 50:27For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. See also: Isaiah 63:4Isaiah 61:2Psalms 94:1Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch. See also: Deuteronomy 29:23Psalms 11:6Revelation 21:8It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever. See also: Revelation 19:3Isaiah 66:24Malachi 1:3-4But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. See also: 2 Kings 21:13Lamentations 2:8Zephaniah 2:14They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. See also: Isaiah 3:6-8Jeremiah 27:20Isaiah 41:24Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. See also: Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 10:22Psalms 44:19The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. See also: Isaiah 13:21-22The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate. See also: Deuteronomy 14:13Search in the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. See also: Psalms 33:9Joshua 1:8Matthew 5:18He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it. See also: Isaiah 34:10Acts 17:26Psalms 78:55
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 34:1
Ver. 1. Come. Both Gentiles and Jews are admonished of the world's end before judgment. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 34:4
Ver. 4. Away. These strong expressions denote great misery. C. xiii. Joel ii. 10.
Ezec. xxxii. 27.
C. --- Book. Heb. "roll." H. --- Some thence foolishly inferred that the destiny of every one might be read in the heavens. Huet. Eus. præp. vi. 11. Philoo. xxiii.
Pic. Astrol. viii. 5. --- The prophet only means that the heavens shall be devoid of beauty, (C.) and covered with darkness.
H.
↑ 4Isaiah 34:5
Ver. 5. Heaven. Casting down the rebel angels. S. Jer. --- The resolution to destroy the Idumeans, for their cruelty to the Jews, has been taken long ago.
All these expressions allude to the last judgment. C. --- Idumea. Under the name of Idumea or Edom, a people that were enemies of God and his Church.
Ch. --- Assaradon fell upon Edom two years after Sennacherib's death. C. --- No strong place like Bosra, shall rescue any from destruction at the last day. W.
↑ 5Isaiah 34:7
Ver. 7. The unicorns. That is, the great and mighty. Ch.
↑ 7Isaiah 34:8
Ver. 8. Recompenses. When the persecutors of Sion, that is, of the Church, shall receive their reward. Ch. --- The Idumeans had frequently shown their ill-will towards the Jews. 2 Par. xxviii.
17. Amos i. 11. C. --- Sion shall perish as the wicked in hell shall be tormented.
W.
↑ 8Isaiah 34:9
Ver. 9. Pitch. The soil was sulphureous, and became neglected, (v. 10.) like the territory of Sodom. The people are now no more, and only a few miserable Arabs pitch their tents there.
↑ 9Isaiah 34:11
Ver. 11. Line. Intimating entire destruction. Lam. ii. 8. and 4 K. xi. 13. C. --- Yet God will not punish more than people deserve. M.
↑ 11Isaiah 34:13
Ver. 13. Dragons, Thannim. C. xiii. 22. H. --- Ostriches, or swans.
↑ 13Isaiah 34:14
Ver. 14. Monsters. Lit. "Ass-centaurs." H. --- Heb. "fishermen shall find islands." C. xiii. 21.
--- Ones. Goats. --- Lamia. Heb. lilith. Chal. "owl," the bird of Minerva, or the Moon, which the Arabs style Alilat. C. --- Dicodorus (20) relates that Lamia was an African queen, who having last her children, was changed into a beast, and destroyed all the children she could catch; and the Jews deal still more in fables, (C.) asserting that Lilith was the first wife of Adam, &c. Buxtorf.
Syn. 2.
↑ 14Isaiah 34:15
Ver. 15. Ericius. Heb. " kippoz, (H.) hath its nest." It may denote the serpent, acontias. Bochart.
--- All this shews the desolation of the country.
↑ 15Isaiah 34:16
Ver. 16. Read what I have written. --- The other. All these beasts will be there, (C.) or all these declarations will be verified. H.
↑ 16License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses