Isaiah 34:8

8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

Isaiah 34:8 in Other Translations

KJV
8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
ESV
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
NLT
8 For it is the day of the LORD ’s revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.
MSG
8 It's God's scheduled time for vengeance, the year all Zion's accounts are settled.
CSB
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a time of paying back [Edom] for its hostility against Zion.

Isaiah 34:8 In-Context

6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Isaiah 2:12
  • 2. S Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 47:3; Isaiah 63:4
  • 3. Isaiah 59:18; Ezekiel 25:12-17; Joel 3:4; Am 1:6-8,9-10
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