Isaiah 34:3

3 Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.

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 All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it.

2 The Lord is angry with all the nations; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all.

3 Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.

4 The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from a fig tree.

5 The Lord's sword in the sky is covered with blood. and destroy those people as an offering to the Lord.