Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
New American Standard Bible
A year of recompense for the
King James Version
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Holman Bible
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
International Standard Version
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for Zion's cause.
American Standard Version
For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Amplified
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.
Bible in Basic English
For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
Darby Translation
For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
Julia Smith Translation
For a day of vengeance to Jehovah, a year of retributions for the contention of Zion.
King James 2000
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance}, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
Modern King James verseion
For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year to repay for the fighting against Zion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Unto thee also, O Zion, shall come the day of the vengeance of God, and the year when thine own judgments shall be recompensed.
NET Bible
For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.
New Heart English Bible
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
The Emphasized Bible
For a day of avenging, hath Yahweh, - A year of requitals for the quarrel of Zion.
Webster
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
World English Bible
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Youngs Literal Translation
(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
Themes
Days » Times of adversity called day of the lord
Edomites, the » Predictions respecting » Punishment for persecuting israel
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 34:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment On The Nations
7 And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Cross References
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the acceptable year of LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Psalm 94:1
O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
Isaiah 35:4
Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God. He will come and save you.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
Deuteronomy 32:41-43
if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Isaiah 49:26
And I will feed those who oppress thee with their own flesh. And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all flesh shall know that I, LORD, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 59:17-18
And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
Jeremiah 46:10
For that day is [a day] of the Lord, LORD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries. And the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood, for the Lord, LORD of hosts, has
Micah 6:1
Hear ye now what LORD says: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Luke 18:7
And God, will he, no, not do the vengeance of his chosen who cry out to him day and night, and yet being patient toward them?
Romans 2:5
But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,
Romans 2:8-9
but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10
Since it is a righteous thing according to God to repay restriction to those who restrict you,
Revelation 6:10-11
And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Revelation 18:20
Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.
Revelation 19:2
Because TRUE and righteous are his judgments, because he has judged the great whore who ruined the earth by her fornication, and he has avenged the blood of his bondmen from her hand.