Isaiah 34 · Verse 8

Isaiah 34:8

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 34:8, King James Version

Isaiah 34:8 in other translations

BSBFor the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
WEBFor the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
ASVFor Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
YLT(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
DARBYFor it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
BBEFor it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
WebsterFor it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

What does Isaiah 34:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. recompenses for the controversy of Zion--that is, the year when God will retaliate on those who have contended with Zion. Her controversy is His. Edom had thought to extend its borders by laying hold of its neighbor's lands and has instigated Babylon to cruelty towards fallen Judah (Psa 137:7; Eze 36:5); therefore Edom shall suffer the same herself (La 4:21, 22). The final winding up of the controversy between God and all enemies of Him and His people is also foreshadowed (Is 61:2; 63:4; 66:14-16; Mal 4:1, 3; 2Th 1:7, 8, 9; Re 11:18; 18:20; 19:2).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion "The year of recompense to the defender of the cause of Zion" - As from דון dun, דין din, a judge; so from רוב rub, ריב rib, an advocate, or defender; Judici Sionis: Syriac.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 34:1-8

God's vengeance against the enemies of his church. (Is. 34:1-8) Their desolation. (Is. 34:9-17) Verses 1-8 Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of his patience, so all must expect to feel his resentment. The description of bloodshed suggests tremendous ideas of the Divine judgments. Idumea here denotes…

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Isaiah 34:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֛יkiforH3588
י֥וֹםYoma day ofH3117
נָקָ֖םna.KamvengeanceH5359
לַֽיהוָ֑הla.Yah.weh[belongs] to YahwehH3068
שְׁנַ֥תshe.Nata year ofH8141
שִׁלּוּמִ֖יםshi.lu.Mimretribution<s>H7966
לְרִ֥יבle.Rivfor [the] cause ofH7379
צִיּֽוֹן\׃tzi.YonZionH6726

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 34:8

  • Isaiah 63:4

    For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

  • Isaiah 61:2

    To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

  • Isaiah 35:4

    Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

  • Jeremiah 46:10

    For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

  • Psalms 94:1

    O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

  • Isaiah 26:21

    For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

  • Revelation 6:10-11

    And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

  • Revelation 19:2

    For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

  • Isaiah 49:26

    And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

  • Revelation 18:20

    Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

  • Deuteronomy 32:35

    To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

  • Romans 2:8-9

    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26:21; 35:4; 49:26; 59:17,18; 61:2; 63:4; De 32:35,41-43; Ps 94:1
Jer 46:10; Mic 6:1; Lu 18:7; Ro 2:5,8,9; 2Th 1:6-10; Re 6:10,11
Re 18:20; 19:2

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Context

  • Isaiah 34:7

    And 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.

  • Isaiah 34:8

    For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

  • Isaiah 34:9

    And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

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Isaiah 34:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque es día de venganza de Jehová, año de retribuciones en el pleito de Sión.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car c’est le jour de la vengeance de l’ Éternel, l’année des récompenses pour la cause de Sion.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn Jehova hat einen Tag der Rache, ein Jahr der Vergeltungen für die Rechtssache Zions. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum judicii Sion.