Isaiah 34:3

3 Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

Isaiah 34:3 in Other Translations

3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

3 Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.

3 Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood.

3 The corpses, thrown in a heap, will stink like the town dump in midsummer, Their blood flowing off the mountains like creeks in spring runoff.

3 Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains flow with their blood.

Isaiah 34:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:3

Their slain also shall be cast out
Upon the open fields, and there lie unburied, and become meat for the fowls of heaven, who are invited to them as to a supper, even the supper of the great God, ( Revelation 19:17 Revelation 19:18 ) : and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses;
so that they shall become loathsome and abominable to the living, and none shall care to come near thereto bury them; an emblem of their loathsome and abominable sins, the cause of this destruction: and the mountains shall be melted with their blood;
an hyperbolical expression, denoting the great number of the slain upon the mountains, and the great quantity of blood shed there; which should run down in large streams, and carry part of them along with it, as large and hasty showers of rain wash away the earth, and carry it along with them; such an hyperbole see in ( Revelation 14:20 ) .

Isaiah 34:3 In-Context

1 Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!

2 The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.

3 Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

4 All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 5:25; S Isaiah 10:4
• 2. S Psalms 110:6; Ezekiel 39:11
• 3. Joel 2:20; Amos 4:10
• 4. ver 7; S 2 Samuel 1:22; Isaiah 63:6; Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 14:19; Ezekiel 32:6; Ezekiel 35:6; Ezekiel 38:22