Isaiah 34:7 “And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong…”

Isaiah 34:7

And 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the vnicorne shall come downe with them and the heiffers with the bulles, and their lande shalbe drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatnesse.

Darby Translation

And the buffaloes 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.

Young's Literal Translation

And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.

Bible in Basic English

And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.

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Cross references

“unicorns”

Numbers 23:22 Numbers 24:8 Deuteronomy 33:17 Psalm 92:10 Job 39:9 Job 39:10

Numbers 23:22 · BSB

God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

Numbers 24:8 · BSB

God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17 · BSB

His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.…

Psalm 92:10 · BSB

But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

Job 39:9 · BSB

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

Job 39:10 · BSB

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

“the bullocks”

Psalm 68:30 Jeremiah 50:27 Jeremiah 46:21 Jeremiah 50:11

Psalm 68:30 · BSB

Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

Jeremiah 50:27 · BSB

Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:21 · BSB

Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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