Isaiah 34:9

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

8For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of Zion in judgment.

10and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the surrounding country, and saw, and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

Job 18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: 1 His excellency shall be sown with brimstone. 1

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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