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Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/34.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Even men as strong as wild oxen will die— the young men alongside the veterans. The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/34.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/34.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/34.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/34.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/34.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; So their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/34.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/34.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Wild oxen shall also fall with them, And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/34.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And wild oxen will also fall with them, And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/34.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Wild oxen will also fall with them And the young bulls with the strong bulls; And their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust made greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/34.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/34.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/34.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/34.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/34.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/34.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/34.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/34.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Wild oxen will fall together with them— young steers and mighty bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be swollen with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/34.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/34.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/34.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be soaked with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/34.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/34.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/34.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And reems have come down with them, "" And bullocks with bulls, "" And their land has been soaked from blood, "" And their dust is made fat from fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/34.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/34.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the strong ones; and their land was drunk from blood, and from fat shall their dust be made fat.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/34.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the single-horned beasts will descend with them, and the bulls along with the mighty. Their land will be inebriated by blood, and their ground by the fat of their lazy ones.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/34.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/34.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/34.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And unicorns shall fall with them, and bullocks with the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with their blood, and the soil enriched with their fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/34.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And wild bulls will fall with them, and bulls with heifers, and the Earth shall be soaked with their blood, and the dust will receive of their fat<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/34.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, And the bullocks with the bulls; And their land shall be drunken with blood, And their dust made fat with fatness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/34.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/34-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=7176" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/34.htm">God's Judgments on the Nations</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7214.htm" title="7214: rə·’ê·mîm (N-mp) -- A wild ox. Or rieym; or reym; or rem; from ra'am; a wild bull.">And the wild oxen</a> <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm" title="3381: wə·yā·rə·ḏū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To come or go down, descend. ">will fall</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im·mām (Prep:: 3mp) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6499.htm" title="6499: ū·p̄ā·rîm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- Young bull, steer. Or par; from parar; a bullock.">the young bulls</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im- (Prep) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/47.htm" title="47: ’ab·bî·rîm (Adj-mp) -- Mighty, valiant. For 'abiyr.">the strong ones.</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’ar·ṣām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">Their land</a> <a href="/hebrew/7301.htm" title="7301: wə·riw·wə·ṯāh (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To be saturated, drink one's fill. A primitive root; to slake the thirst.">will be drenched</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: mid·dām (Prep-m:: N-ms) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">with blood,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6083.htm" title="6083: wa·‘ă·p̄ā·rām (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- Dry earth, dust. From aphar; dust; hence, clay, earth, mud.">and their soil</a> <a href="/hebrew/1878.htm" title="1878: yə·ḏuš·šān (V-Pual-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to be fat; transitively, to fatten; specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; denominatively to remove ashes.">will be soaked</a> <a href="/hebrew/2459.htm" title="2459: mê·ḥê·leḇ (Prep-m:: N-ms) -- Or cheleb; from an unused root meaning to be fat; fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part.">with fat.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-17.htm">Revelation 19:17-18</a></span><br />Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, / so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/46-10.htm">Jeremiah 46:10</a></span><br />For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/39-17.htm">Ezekiel 39:17-20</a></span><br />And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. / You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan. / At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-20.htm">Revelation 14:20</a></span><br />And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">Jeremiah 25:34-38</a></span><br />Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery. / Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock. / Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-7.htm">Zephaniah 1:7-8</a></span><br />Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests. / “On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/6-15.htm">Revelation 6:15-17</a></span><br />Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. / And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. / For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-1.htm">Isaiah 63:1-6</a></span><br />Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Joel 3:13</a></span><br />Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/19-21.htm">Revelation 19:21</a></span><br />And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm">Jeremiah 50:27</a></span><br />Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/21-10.htm">Ezekiel 21:10</a></span><br />it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/3-3.htm">Nahum 3:3</a></span><br />Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-19.htm">Revelation 14:19</a></span><br />So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-16.htm">Isaiah 66:16</a></span><br />For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">unicorns.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/23-22.htm">Numbers 23:22</a></b></br> God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/24-8.htm">Numbers 24:8</a></b></br> God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce <i>them</i> through with his arrows.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/33-17.htm">Deuteronomy 33:17</a></b></br> His glory <i>is like</i> the firstling of his bullock, and his horns <i>are like</i> the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they <i>are</i> the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they <i>are</i> the thousands of Manasseh.</p><p class="hdg">the bullocks</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/68-30.htm">Psalm 68:30</a></b></br> Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, <i>till every one</i> submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people <i>that</i> delight in war.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/46-21.htm">Jeremiah 46:21</a></b></br> Also her hired men <i>are</i> in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, <i>and</i> are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, <i>and</i> the time of their visitation.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Jeremiah 50:11,27</a></b></br> Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; … </p><p class="hdg">soaked.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/34-3.htm">Isaiah 34:3</a></b></br> 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.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm">Buffaloes</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-13.htm">Bull</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Bullocks</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Bulls</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-10.htm">Calves</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-20.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm">Death</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-3.htm">Drenched</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-5.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-4.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm">Fatness</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm">Great</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-8.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-14.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Oxen</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-6.htm">Rich</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-16.htm">Smaller</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-5.htm">Soaked</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-23.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-4.htm">Together</a> <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm">Unicorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Wild</a> <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm">Wild-Oxen</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-4.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/39-7.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm">Buffaloes</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-20.htm">Bull</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-21.htm">Bullocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Bulls</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Calves</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm">Death</a> <a href="/zechariah/9-15.htm">Drenched</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-26.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-9.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-24.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-2.htm">Fatness</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-11.htm">Great</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-12.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm">Oxen</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-9.htm">Rich</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-5.htm">Smaller</a> <a href="/john/19-29.htm">Soaked</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-9.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-3.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-14.htm">Together</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-17.htm">Unicorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Wild</a> <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm">Wild-Oxen</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-15.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 34</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/34-1.htm">The judgments wherewith God revenges his church</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/34-11.htm">The desolation of her enemies</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/34-16.htm">The certainty of the prophecy</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "wild oxen" can be interpreted as powerful leaders or nations that are brought down by divine judgment. In the ancient Near East, wild oxen were symbols of strength and power. This imagery aligns with the broader context of <a href="/isaiah/34.htm">Isaiah 34</a>, which prophesies the judgment of nations, particularly Edom. The fall of these mighty creatures signifies the comprehensive nature of God's judgment, where even the strongest cannot withstand His wrath.<p><b>the young bulls with the strong ones</b><br>The mention of "young bulls" alongside "strong ones" emphasizes the totality of the destruction. Young bulls, representing vigor and potential, falling with the strong ones, indicates that both the future and the present powers are subject to God's judgment. This can be seen as a metaphor for the complete overthrow of both emerging and established powers. The imagery of bulls also connects to sacrificial language, hinting at the idea of a divine offering or judgment.<p><b>Their land will be drenched with blood</b><br>This phrase vividly describes the aftermath of divine judgment. The land being "drenched with blood" signifies extensive loss of life and the severity of God's wrath. Blood is often associated with life and covenant in the Bible, and its spilling indicates brokenness and judgment. This imagery is consistent with other prophetic writings, such as in <a href="/ezekiel/35-6.htm">Ezekiel 35:6</a>, where bloodshed is a consequence of rebellion against God.<p><b>and their soil will be soaked with fat</b><br>The "soil soaked with fat" can be seen as a continuation of the sacrificial imagery. In Levitical law, fat was considered the best part of the sacrifice and was offered to God (<a href="/leviticus/3-16.htm">Leviticus 3:16</a>). Here, the abundance of fat soaking the soil suggests a complete and overwhelming judgment, as if the land itself is part of a sacrificial offering. This imagery underscores the totality of the destruction and the seriousness of God's judgment against sin.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/w/wild_oxen.htm">Wild Oxen</a></b><br>Symbolic of strength and power, often representing nations or leaders in biblical prophecy.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/y/young_bulls.htm">Young Bulls</a></b><br>Typically symbolize vigor and potential, possibly representing emerging powers or nations.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/mighty_bulls.htm">Mighty Bulls</a></b><br>Represent established powers or leaders, often seen as formidable and influential.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_land.htm">The Land</a></b><br>Refers to the territory under judgment, symbolizing the broader scope of divine retribution.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/blood_and_fat.htm">Blood and Fat</a></b><br>Indicative of sacrifice and judgment, representing the totality of God's wrath and the completeness of His justice.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a></b><br>God's authority extends over all nations and leaders, and His judgments are just and righteous.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_divine_justice.htm">The Reality of Divine Justice</a></b><br>The imagery of blood and fat underscores the seriousness of God's judgment. It serves as a reminder of the consequences of sin and rebellion against God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_strength_and_power.htm">Symbolism of Strength and Power</a></b><br>The wild oxen and bulls symbolize human strength and power, which are ultimately subject to God's will. This teaches humility and reliance on God rather than human might.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Understanding the severity of God's judgment should lead to repentance and a turning away from sin, aligning our lives with God's will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_righteousness.htm">Hope in God's Righteousness</a></b><br>While the passage speaks of judgment, it also points to the hope found in God's righteous rule, where justice will ultimately prevail.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_34.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 34</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_are_unicorns_in_the_kjv_bible.htm">Why does the Bible include mythical creatures like unicorns (King James Version)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_foods_are_mentioned_in_the_bible.htm">What foods are mentioned in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_paschal_mystery.htm">What is the Paschal Mystery?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_is_lilith_in_the_bible.htm">Who is Lilith in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/34.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">And the unicorns shall come down with them . . .</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">the aurochs, </span>or <span class= "ital">wild bulls </span><span class= "bld">. . .</span> The Hebrew, <span class= "ital">rem, </span>which meets us in <a href="/deuteronomy/33-17.htm" title="His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.">Deuteronomy 33:17</a>; <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm" title="Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.">Psalm 22:21</a>, has been identified with the buffalo, the antelope (<span class= "ital">Antilope leucoryx</span>)<span class= "ital">, </span>and by Mr. Houghton, a naturalist as well as a scholar, on the strength of Assyrian inscriptions, pointing to the land of the Khatti (Hittites) and the foot of the Lebanon as its <span class= "ital">habitat, </span>and of bas-reliefs representing it, with the <span class= "ital">Bos primigenius </span>of zoologists (<span class= "ital">Bible Educator, </span>ii. 24-29). Here, the fierce wild beasts stand for the chiefs of the Edomites. (Comp. <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm" title="Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.">Psalm 22:12</a>; <a href="/psalms/22-21.htm" title="Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.">Psalm 22:21</a>.) The verb, "shall come down," as in <a href="/jeremiah/48-15.htm" title="Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, said the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.">Jeremiah 48:15</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm" title="Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.">Jeremiah 50:27</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/51-40.htm" title="I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.">Jeremiah 51:40</a>, implies going down to the shambles, or slaughtering house. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/34.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The unicorns</span>; Bishop Lowth renders <span class="accented">ream</span> by "wild goats;" Mr. Cheyne by "buffaloes." Probably the wild ox, a native of the trans-Jordanic region, is intended (see Mr. Houghton's paper on the animals of the Assyrian bas-reliefs, in the 'Transactions of the Society of Bibl. Archaeology,' vol. 5. p. 336). <span class="cmt_word">Shall come down</span>; rather, <span class="accented">shall go down</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> shall fall and perish (comp. <a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm">Jeremiah 50:27</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/34-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">And the wild oxen</span><br /><span class="heb">רְאֵמִים֙</span> <span class="translit">(rə·’ê·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7214.htm">Strong's 7214: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wild bull</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will fall</span><br /><span class="heb">וְיָרְד֤וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·yā·rə·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3381.htm">Strong's 3381: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come or go down, descend</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with them,</span><br /><span class="heb">עִמָּ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘im·mām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the young bulls</span><br /><span class="heb">וּפָרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(ū·p̄ā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6499.htm">Strong's 6499: </a> </span><span class="str2">Young bull, steer</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</span><br /><span class="heb">עִם־</span> <span class="translit">(‘im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the strong [ones].</span><br /><span class="heb">אַבִּירִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ab·bî·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_47.htm">Strong's 47: </a> </span><span class="str2">Mighty, valiant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Their land</span><br /><span class="heb">אַרְצָם֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ar·ṣām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be drenched</span><br /><span class="heb">וְרִוְּתָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·riw·wə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7301.htm">Strong's 7301: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be saturated, drink one's fill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with blood,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִדָּ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(mid·dām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> </span><span class="str2">Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and their soil</span><br /><span class="heb">וַעֲפָרָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wa·‘ă·p̄ā·rām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6083.htm">Strong's 6083: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dust, clay, earth, mud</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be soaked</span><br /><span class="heb">יְדֻשָּֽׁן׃</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḏuš·šān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1878.htm">Strong's 1878: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be fat, to fatten, to anoint, to satisfy, to remove, ashes</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with fat.</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵחֵ֥לֶב</span> <span class="translit">(mê·ḥê·leḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2459.htm">Strong's 2459: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fat, richest, choice part</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/34-7.htm">Isaiah 34:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 34:7 The wild oxen will come down (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 34:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 34:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/34-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 34:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 34:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>