Isaiah 34:9

And her streams have been turned to pitch, || And her dust to brimstone, || And her land has become burning pitch.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

In Context

8(For a day of vengeance [is] to YHWH, || A year of recompenses for Zion’s strife),

10She is not quenched by night and by day, || Her smoke goes up for all time, || She is desolate from generation to generation, || Forever and ever, none is passing into her.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

Job 18:15It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

Luke 17:29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed all.

Revelation 19:20and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image; the two were cast living into the lake of the fire that is burning with brimstone;

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 →

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