Isaiah 34:3

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“Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.”

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BSBPD

“Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 34:3 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
  2. Isaiah 14:19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
  3. Isaiah 34:7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
  4. Jeremiah 8:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
  5. Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
  6. Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
  7. Ezekiel 32:4I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.
  8. Ezekiel 32:5I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
  9. Ezekiel 32:6I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains— the ravines will be filled.
  10. Ezekiel 35:6therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
  11. Ezekiel 38:22I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
  12. Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
  13. Ezekiel 39:11And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
  14. Joel 2:20The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
  15. Amos 4:10“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  16. Nahum 3:3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
  17. Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
  18. Revelation 16:3And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.

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