Isaiah 34:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.”

Isaiah 34:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Isaiah 34:8 in 6 Bible Translations

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Isaiah 34:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.”

Isaiah 34:8 — World English Bible

Isaiah 34:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. ”

Isaiah 34:8 — American Standard Version

Isaiah 34:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“(For a day of vengeance <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)”

Isaiah 34:8 — Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 34:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. ”

Isaiah 34:8 — Darby Translation

Isaiah 34:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“For it is the day of the Lordes vengeance, and the yeere of recompence for the iudgement of Zion.”

Isaiah 34:8 — Geneva Bible

Isaiah 34:8 in Context — Isaiah 34

6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

8 For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

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What Does Isaiah 34:8 Mean?

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