Isaiah 34:1

The Lord Will Judge Edom

34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!

Pay attention, you people!

The earth and everything it contains must listen,

the world and everything that lives in it. ¹ 

Isaiah 1:22

1:22 Your ²  silver has become scum, ³ 

your beer is diluted with water. ⁴ 

[34:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”

[1:22]  ² tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.

[1:22]  ³ tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

[1:22]  ⁴ sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.