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


In Context

5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

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.

Isaiah 34:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

34:8For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:8For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

34:8For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

34:8For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:8For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

34:8For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:8For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

34:8(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:8For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.