8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
8 It's God's scheduled time for vengeance, the year all Zion's accounts are settled.
8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
8 For it is the day of the Lord 's revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 34:8
Commentary on Isaiah 34:1-8
(Read Isaiah 34:1-8)
Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benefit of his patience, so all must expect to feel his resentment. The description of bloodshed suggests tremendous ideas of the Divine judgments. Idumea here denotes the nations at enmity with the church; also the kingdom of antichrist. Our thoughts cannot reach the horrors of that awful season, to those found opposing the church of Christ. There is a time fixed in the Divine counsels for the deliverance of the church, and the destruction of her enemies. We must patiently wait till then, and judge nothing before the time. Through Christ, mercy is exercised to every believer, consistently with justice, and his name is glorified.