Ésaïe 34:7

7 Les buffles tombent avec eux, Et les boeufs avec les taureaux; La terre s'abreuve de sang, Et le sol est imprégné de graisse.

Ésaïe 34:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:7

And the unicorns shall come down with them
With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature as the unicorn; or the buffaloes, as ^F13 others; these "shall fall", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, they shall be slain, as well as the rest; meaning, that along with the common soldiers, and inferior officers, the general officers should fall; and so the Targum,

``and the mighty shall be slain with them.''

R. Abraham Seba says ^F14 he read in a certain book, that the word here should not be read (Mymar) , "unicorns", but (Myymwr) , "the Romans shall come down": and the bullocks with the bulls:
or, as the Targum,

``and the rulers with the princes;''

the same with the kings, captains, and mighty men in ( Revelation 19:18 ) : and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness;
Or, "their land shall be inebriated" ^F15, or made drunk, with blood; and the dust thereof thickened by it, and made clods of with it, as the parched earth is watered with a plentiful shower, and the dust laid with it: this is a just retaliation to the whore of Rome, who has been made drunk with the blood of the saints, and now blood shall be given her to drink, even her own, with which she shall be filled, and welter and wallow in the clods of it, ( Revelation 17:6 ) ( 16:6 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 So Gussetius understands it of a larger sort of oxen, Comment. Ebr. p. 783.
F14 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 47. 3.
F15 (htwrw) "et inebriabitur", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator.

Ésaïe 34:7 In-Context

5 Mon épée s'est enivrée dans les cieux; Voici, elle va descendre sur Edom, Sur le peuple que j'ai voué à l'extermination, pour le châtier.

6 L'épée de l'Eternel est pleine de sang, couverte de graisse, Du sang des agneaux et des boucs, De la graisse des reins des béliers; Car il y a des victimes de l'Eternel à Botsra, Et un grand carnage dans le pays d'Edom,

7 Les buffles tombent avec eux, Et les boeufs avec les taureaux; La terre s'abreuve de sang, Et le sol est imprégné de graisse.

8 Car c'est un jour de vengeance pour l'Eternel, Une année de représailles pour la cause de Sion.

9 Les torrents d'Edom seront changés en poix, Et sa poussière en soufre; Et sa terre sera comme de la poix qui brûle.