Isaiah 34:3

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Summary

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Slain

And the mountains

General references

Deuteronomy 28:26

Ezekiel 32:4

Ezekiel 35:8

Bible References

Slain

“But you have been cast out of your tomb
Like a rejected branch,

Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.

They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

“He will be buried with a donkey’s burial,
Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

“But I will remove the northern army far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the eastern sea,
And its rear guard into the western sea.
And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up,
For it has done great things.”

And the mountains

Wild oxen will also fall with them

And young bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be soaked with blood,
And their dust become greasy with fat.

“I will lay your flesh on the mountains
And fill the valleys with your refuse.

And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.

General references

Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

“I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you on the open field.
And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.