Isaías 34:1

1 Mensaje para las naciones
Vengan aquí y escuchen, oh naciones de la tierra;
que el mundo y todo lo que hay en él oigan mis palabras.

Isaías 34:1 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people,
&c.] Not the people of the Jews, as some, whose utter destruction, after their rejection of the Messiah, is here thought to be prophesied of; and much less are these people called upon to hear the Gospel preached to them, as Cocceius thinks; for not good, but bad news they are called to hearken to, even the account of their utter ruin: let the earth hear, and all that is therein:
not the land of Judea, but all the earth, and the inhabitants of it: the world, and all things that come forth of it;
which may either be understood of those that dwell in it, as the Targum interprets it; of the people that are in it, as the Septuagint and the Oriental versions; and so the phrase may denote the original of them, being of the earth, earthly, and to which they must return again; and may be designed to humble men, and hide pride from them; or else the fruits of the earth, trees, and everything that spring out of it, which are called upon to hear the voice of the Lord, when men would not; and so is designed to rebuke the stupidity and sluggishness of men to hearken to what is said to them, even from the Lord, when upon the brink of destruction.

Isaías 34:1 In-Context

1 Mensaje para las naciones
Vengan aquí y escuchen, oh naciones de la tierra;
que el mundo y todo lo que hay en él oigan mis palabras.

2 Pues el Señor
está furioso contra las naciones;
su furia es contra todos sus ejércitos.
Los destruirá
por completo,
los condenará a ser masacrados.

3 Sus muertos quedarán sin sepultura,
y el hedor de los cuerpos podridos llenará la tierra;
de los montes fluirá su sangre.

4 Arriba, los cielos se esfumarán
y desaparecerán como quien enrolla un pergamino.
Las estrellas caerán de los cielos
como caen las hojas marchitas de una vid,
o los higos secos de una higuera.

5 Y cuando mi espada haya terminado su trabajo en los cielos,
caerá sobre Edom,
la nación que he señalado para ser destruida.