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Episode: ISBHPK - BIBLE TALK BASICS!
Description: Isaiah 34:16
book of the Lord — the volume in which the various prophecies and other parts of Scripture began henceforward to be collected together (Isa_30:8; Dan_9:2).
Seek — (so Isa_8:16, Isa_8:20; Joh_5:39; Joh_7:52).
no one ... fail — of these prophecies (Mat_5:18).
none shall want ... mate — image from pairing of animals mentioned, Isa_34:15 (“mate”); no prediction shall want a fulfillment as its companion. Or rather, “none of these wild animals (just spoken of) shall be wanting: none shall be without its mate” to pair and breed with, in desolate Idumea.
my ... his — Such changes of person are frequent in Hebrew poetry.
them — the wild beasts.