Isaiah 34:9
And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.
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8For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
Cross References
Genesis 19:28And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
Job 18:15In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
Luke 17:29But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:2-9
Threatenings against God's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all… Read the whole commentary →