Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 34:1

CHAPTER 34

Is 34:1-17. Judgment on Idumea.

The thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth chapters form one prophecy, the former part of which denounces God's judgment against His people's enemies, of whom Edom is the representative; the second part, of the flourishing state of the Church consequent on those judgments. This forms the termination of the prophecies of the first part of Isaiah (the thirty-sixth through thirty-ninth chapters being historical) and is a kind of summary of what went before, setting forth the one main truth, Israel shall be delivered from all its foes, and happier times shall succeed under Messiah.

1. All creation is summoned to hear God's judgments (Eze 6:3; De 32:1; Psa 50:4; Mi 6:1, 2), for they set forth His glory, which is the end of creation (Re 15:3; 4:11).

that come forth of it--answering to "all that is therein"; or Hebrew, "all whatever fills it," Margin.