Isaiah 34:3

3 Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains flow^[a] 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 You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it.

2 The Lord is angry with all the nations- furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter.

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

4 All the heavenly bodies will dissolve. The skies will roll up like a scroll, and their stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree.

5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or melt, or dissolve