Isaiah 34:7
Good News Translation
The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.

New Revised Standard Version
Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.

Contemporary English Version
Edom's leaders are wild oxen. They are powerful bulls, but they will die with the others. Their country will be soaked with their own blood, and its soil made fertile with their own fat.

New American Bible
Wild oxen shall be struck down with fatlings, and bullocks with bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil greasy with fat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.

unicorns.

Numbers 23:22 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

Numbers 24:8 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

Job 39:9,10 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib? . . .

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

the bullocks

Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Jeremiah 46:21 Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 50:11,27 Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls. . . .

soaked.

Isaiah 34:3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Context
God's Judgments on the Nations
6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.8For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.…
Cross References
Numbers 23:22
God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

Job 39:9
Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?

Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 68:30
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Isaiah 63:6
And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the earth.

Jeremiah 25:34
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels.

Jeremiah 46:21
Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 50:27
Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Ezekiel 32:6
And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.

Ezekiel 39:17
And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.

Isaiah 34:6
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