King James Version
Isaiah 34:8 in the King James Version says “For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.”
Isaiah 34:8 · KJV
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.
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. unicorns: or, rhinocerots soaked: or, drunken
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For it is the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of the LORD'S”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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