Isaiah 34

But yet he will sometimes reach out his hand from Heaven in an extraordinary instance of vengeance, on purpose that men may know that things shall not for ever be passed over in such a promiscuous manner, but that he has appointed another day wherein he will judge the world in r…

Yet sin is such a ruinous thing as this. And then in Isaiah 34:13, Thorns shall come up in her Palaces, Nettles and Brambles in the Fortresses thereof, and it shall be a habitation for Dragons, and a Court for Owls; the Owls they shall keep Court there. In our Courts we know wha…

The day of execution of God's wrath upon wicked men is a day of feast, upon this ground. First, because the day of their feasts were days of slaying sacrifices, so they should now be slain, and God would account even their bodies that were slain to be as sacrifices for this grea…

It should be nothing in our esteem, so far as it would be something separate from God, or in co-ordination with God (Isaiah 40:17): All nations before him are as nothing, less than nothing and vanity (Job 6:21): Now you are nothing. All friends cannot help, our foes cannot hurt…

The reasons are, 1. because at the deliverance of his people God will plead with their enemies for their oppressions. It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion (Isaiah 34:8). It is the vengeance of the Lord and his Temple that lig…

So Rabbi in [in non-Latin alphabet], or Bundle of Myrrh, a Commentary on the Law, says more than once [in non-Latin alphabet], upon the destruction of Rome, our Redemption shall ensue out of hand. And it is by many observed that an Alteration is made in the later Editions of the…

All that he does to them, is a recompense for the controversy of Zion. Isaiah 34:9: For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. We see not perhaps at this day, wherein the concernments of the remnant of God's people does li…

When he gathers the nations, and brings them into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there causes his mighty ones to come down against them (Joel 3:2, 11). When the day of God's indignation does come, and he makes such slaughter among his enemies, that the earth does stink with thei…

And when Christ and the gospel are out of Scotland, do not dream that your houses shall thrive and that it shall go well with the nobles of the land. As the Lord lives, the streams of your waters shall become pitch, and the dust of your land brimstone, and your land shall become…

This, this is that gold, and silver, and those precious stones, which will stand the test of the fire that shall try every man's work (1 Corinthians 3:12-13), and will be found to praise, and honor, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:7). Assure yourselves (Chr…

He avenges his elect that cry unto him, yes he does it speedily. The controversy of Zion leads on the day of his vengeance (Isaiah 34:4). He looks upon them sometimes in distress and considers what is the state of the world in reference to them (Zechariah 1:11).

Let God gain some glory, and we shall gain some good, by all our sufferings. Take the counsel (Isaiah 34:15), Glorify the Lord in the fires. To enforce these three things;

This is the Heavens and Earth of the nations which is to be shaken, in my Text. Isaiah 34:4. All the host of heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falls from the vine. Now these dissolved,…