Isaiah 34:7 · KJV
“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. {unicorns: or, rhinocerots} {soaked: or, drunken}”
— Isaiah 34:7
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.
For {it is} the day of the LORD'S vengeance, {and} the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 34 — Context
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6The 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.
7And 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. {unicorns: or, rhinocerots} {soaked: or, drunken}
8For {it is} the day of the LORD'S vengeance, {and} the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Cross References
Psalms 68:30
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, {till every one} submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people {that} delight in war. {the company...: or, the beasts of the reeds} {scatter...: or, he scattereth}
Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Psalms 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like {the horn of} an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; {fat: Heb. big, or, corpulent} {bellow...: or, neigh as steeds}
Job 39:9-10
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men {are} in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, {and} are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, {and} the time of their visitation. {fatted...: Heb. bullocks of the stall}
Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce {them} through with his arrows.