Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
come. This and the following chapter, as Bp. Lowth observes, form one distinct prophecy; an entire, regular, and beautiful poem, consisting of two parts; the first containing a denunciation of Divine vengeance against the enemies of the people or church of God' the second describing the flourishing state of that church consequent upon those judgments. The event foretold is represented as of the highest importance, and of universal concern; all nations are called upon to attend to the declaration of it; and the wrath of God is denounced against all the nations who had provoked to anger the Defender of the cause of Zion. By a figure frequently occurring in the prophetical writings, the cities and people mentioned here, who were remarkably distinguished as the enemies of the people of God are put for those enemies in general.
Isaiah 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see …
Isaiah 33:13 Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that are near, …
Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their …
Isaiah 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: …
Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The LORD …
Judges 5:3,31 Hear, O you kings; give ear, O you princes; I, even I, will sing …
Psalm 49:1,2 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…
Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from …
Psalm 96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also shall …
Mark 16:15,16 And he said to them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel …
Revelation 2:7 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …
let the
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude …
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the …
Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Micah 6:1,2 Hear you now what the LORD said; Arise, contend you before the mountains, …
all that is therein. Heb. the fulness thereof
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and …
1 Corinthians 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
the indignation
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns …
Jeremiah 25:15-29 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …
Joel 3:9-14 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he …
Amos 2:1-6 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, …
Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait you on me, said the LORD, until the day that I rise …
Zechariah 14:3,12-16 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as …
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness …
Revelation 6:12-17 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, see, there was …
Revelation 14:15-20 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice …
Revelation 19:15-21 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite …
Revelation 20:9,15 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp …
and his
Isaiah 30:27-30 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, …
Nahum 1:2-6 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …
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.
slain
Isaiah 14:19,20 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and …
2 Kings 9:35-37 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the …
Jeremiah 8:1,2 At that time, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the …
Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an donkey, drawn and cast forth …
Ezekiel 39:4,11 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, …
Joel 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive …
and the mountains
Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with …
Ezekiel 32:5,6 And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys …
Revelation 14:20 And the wine press was trodden without the city, and blood came out …
Revelation 16:3,4 And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea; and it became …
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
all the
Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not …
Isaiah 14:12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …
Psalm 102:25,26 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens …
Jeremiah 4:23,24 I beheld the earth, and, see, it was without form, and void; and …
Ezekiel 32:7,8 And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the …
Joel 2:30,31 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and …
Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw …
Matthew 24:29,35 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be …
Mark 13:24,25 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, …
Acts 2:19,20 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; …
2 Peter 3:7-12 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are …
Revelation 6:13,14 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts …
Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, …
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
my sword
Deuteronomy 32:14,42 Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of …
Psalm 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from …
Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, …
Jeremiah 47:6 O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere you be quiet? put …
Ezekiel 21:3-5,9-11 And say to the land of Israel, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I am against …
Zephaniah 2:12 You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went …
upon Idumea
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …
Jeremiah 49:7-22 Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in …
Ezekiel 25:12-14 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house …
Amos 1:11,12 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, …
Obadiah 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We …
Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build …
the people
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination …
Deuteronomy 29:18-21 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling …
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
filled
Isaiah 63:3 I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the people there was …
Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become …
Ezekiel 21:4,5,10 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked…
the fast
Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of …
the Lord hath
Isaiah 34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down …
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Jeremiah 50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to …
Jeremiah 51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Ezekiel 39:17-20 And, you son of man, thus said the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered …
Zephaniah 1:7 Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the …
Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud …
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.
unicorns. or, rhinoceroses
Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength …
Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are …
Job 39:9,10 Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib…
Psalm 92:10 But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall …
the bullocks
Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with …
Jeremiah 46:21 Also her hired men are in the middle of her like fatted bullocks; …
Jeremiah 50:11,27 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of …
soaked. or, drunken
Isaiah 34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up …
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants …
Isaiah 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, …
Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they …
Isaiah 59:17,18 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation …
Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance …
Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Deuteronomy 32:35,41-43 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in …
Psalm 94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …
Micah 6:1 Hear you now what the LORD said; Arise, contend you before the mountains, …
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
Romans 2:5,8,9 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation …
Revelation 6:10,11 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true…
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Genesis 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land …
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone …
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible …
Luke 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone …
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked …
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
shall not
Isaiah 1:31 And the strong shall be as wick, and the maker of it as a spark, …
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look on the carcasses of the men that …
Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall …
Ezekiel 20:47,48 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus …
Mark 9:43-48 And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to …
the smoke
Revelation 14:10,11 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured …
Revelation 18:18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city …
Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
from
Isaiah 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from …
Ezekiel 29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass …
Malachi 1:3,4 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
cormorant. or, pelican
Isaiah 13:20-22 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from …
Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: …
Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the middle of her, all the beasts of the nations…
Revelation 18:2,21-23 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great …
stretch
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down …
2 Kings 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet …
Lamentations 2:8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: …
Malachi 1:3,4 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
thorns
Isaiah 32:13,14 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on …
Hosea 9:6 For, see, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather …
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely …
an habitation
Isaiah 13:21,22 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall …
Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land …
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will …
Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out …
Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: …
Jeremiah 50:39,40 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the …
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
Revelation 18:2,20-24 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great …
owls. or, ostriches. Heb. daughters of the owl
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
the wild beasts of the desert. Heb. Zim. the wild beasts of the island. Heb. Ijim. screech owl. or, night-monster
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
seek
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that …
Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen …
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, …
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to …
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the …
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: …
John 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture …
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well …
Matthew 5:18 For truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass, one stroke or …
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
my mouth
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters on the earth, …
Psalm 33:6,9 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of …
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
