Isaías 34:5

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

Isaías 34:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:5

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven
That is, the sword of the Lord, as it is called in the next verse ( Isaiah 34:6 ) , and it is he that is speaking; it designs the vengeance of the Lord, the punishment he will inflict on the wicked, said to be "bathed in heaven", because determined and prepared there; the allusion may be to the bathing of swords in some sort of liquor, to harden or brighten them, and so fit them for use. Kimchi renders it, "my sword" which is "in heaven shall be bathed", that is, in the blood of the slain; "heaven" may denote the whole Roman Papal jurisdiction, as it does the whole Roman Pagan empire in ( Revelation 12:7 ) and may design the principal men in it, those that are in the highest places and offices, in whom the sword of the Lord shall be first drenched, and be as it were satiated and inebriated with the blood of them: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea;
with great weight, force, and vengeance, having a commission from heaven to execute. Idumea is here particularly mentioned, because the Edomites were implacable enemies to the Jews, and so are here put for all the enemies of God's church and people, all the antichristian states, particularly Rome, which the Jews, as Jerom observes, understand by Edom or Idumea here: upon the people of my curse to judgment;
a very descriptive character of the Papists, the people of God's curse, and righteously so; those who have anathematized his people, and cursed them with bell, book, and candle, are anathematized by him, devoted to destruction, and doomed to be accursed, sentenced to ruin, and on whom judgment shall pass, and shall be executed; they shall hear, "go, ye cursed", both here and hereafter, at the fall of Babylon, and at the general judgment. The Targum is,

``because my sword is revealed in heaven; behold, upon Edom it is revealed, and upon the people whom I have condemned to judgment.''

Isaías 34:5 In-Context

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.

6 La espada del Señor
está empapada en sangre
y cubierta de grasa,
con la sangre de corderos y cabras,
con la grasa de carneros preparados para el sacrificio.
Sí, el Señor
ofrecerá un sacrificio en la ciudad de Bosra
y hará una gran matanza en Edom.

7 Hasta morirán hombres tan fuertes como los bueyes salvajes,
los jóvenes junto a los veteranos.
La tierra quedará empapada en sangre
y el suelo enriquecido con la grasa.