Isaiah 34

Isaiah 34:1-17 . JUDGMENT ON IDUMEA.

The thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth chapters form one prophecy, the former part of which denounces God's judgment against His people's enemies, of whom Edom is the representative; the second part, of the flourishing state of the Church consequent on those judgments. This forms the termination of the prophecies of the first part of Isaiah (the thirty-sixth through thirty-ninth chapters being historical) and is a kind of summary of what went before, setting forth the one main truth, Israel shall be delivered from all its foes, and happier times shall succeed under Messiah.

1. All creation is summoned to hear God's judgments ( Ezekiel 6:3 , Deuteronomy 32:1 , Psalms 50:4 , Micah 6:1 Micah 6:2 ), for they set forth His glory, which is the end of creation ( Revelation 15:3 , 4:11 ).
that come forth of it--answering to "all that is therein"; or Hebrew, "all whatever fills it," Margin.

2. utterly destroyed--rather, "doomed them to an utter curse" [HORSLEY].
delivered--rather, "appointed."

3. cast out--unburied ( Isaiah 14:19 ).
melted--washed away as with a descending torrent.

4. ( Psalms 102:26 , Joel 2:31 , 3:15 , Matthew 24:29 ).
dissolved--( 2 Peter 3:10-12 ) Violent convulsions of nature are in Scripture made the images of great changes in the human world ( Isaiah 24:19-21 ), and shall literally accompany them at the winding up of the present dispensation.
scroll--Books were in those days sheets of parchment rolled together ( Revelation 6:14 ).
fail down--The stars shall fall when the heavens in which they are fixed pass away.
fig tree--( Revelation 6:13 ).