Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned into tar, its soil into sulfur, and her land will become burning tar!
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8For the Lord has a day of punishment, a year of retribution, for the trouble caused to Zion.
Cross References
Genesis 19:28He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley floor, and saw the land burning, sending up smoke like from a furnace.
Job 18:15People they don't know will live in their homes; sulfur will be scattered where they used to live.
Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Revelation 19:20The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped the beast's image). Both of them were thrown alive into the like of fire that burns with sulfur.
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 →