Isaiah 34:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Their slain will be thrown out; and as for their dead bodies— their stench will ascend; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

NET Bible (©2006)
Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. Mountains will be red with their blood.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stench shall rise up out of their corpses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

American King James Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

American Standard Version
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a slink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Darby Bible Translation
And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

World English Bible
Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.

Young's Literal Translation
And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-8 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 the nations at enmity with the church; also the kingdom of antichrist. Our thoughts cannot reach the horrors of that awful season, to those found opposing the church of Christ. There is a time fixed in the Divine counsels for the deliverance of the church, and the destruction of her enemies. We must patiently wait till then, and judge nothing before the time. Through Christ, mercy is exercised to every believer, consistently with justice, and his name is glorified.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - Cast out; i.e. refused burial - thrown to the dogs and vultures (comp. Jeremiah 22:19; Jeremiah 36:30). Such treatment of the dead was regarded as a shame and a disgrace. It was on some occasions an intentional insult (Jeremiah 22:19); but here the idea is rather that it would be impossible to bury the slain on account of their number. In ancient times corpses often lay unburied on battle-fields (Herod., 3:12). The mountains shall be molted with their blood. When the feelings of the prophet are excited, he shrinks from no hyperbole. Here he represents the blood of God's enemies as shed in such torrents that mountains are melted by it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. cast out—unburied (Isa 14:19).

melted—washed away as with a descending torrent.

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God's Judgments on the Nations
1Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For the indignation of the LORD is on all nations, and his fury on all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. …

Isaiah 10:4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
Isaiah 66:24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Jeremiah 25:33 At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere--from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Ezekiel 14:19 "Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,
Ezekiel 32:6 I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
Ezekiel 35:6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
Ezekiel 38:22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Joel 2:20 "I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise." Surely he has done great things!
Amos 4:10 "I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.
Nahum 3:3 Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses--