Isaiah 34:3

3 Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow 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 Draw near, O nations, to hear; O peoples, give heed! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their hordes; he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

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

4 All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall wither like a leaf withering on a vine, or fruit withering on a fig tree.

5 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, lo, it will descend upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed to judgment.