Isaiah 34:9

Its streams will be turned into pitch, 2 its dust into sulfur, 2 And its land will become burning pitch. 1

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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 Adonai has a day of vengeance, 2 a year of recompense for the cause of Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking]. 1

10It won’t be quenched night nor day. 2 Its smoke will go up forever. + 34:10. Quoted in Rev 18:18, 19:3 + 34:10. (9-10) Quoted in Rev 14:10-11 2 From generation to generation, it will lie waste. 2 No one will pass through it forever and ever. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28He looked toward Sodom [Burning] and Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants], and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Luke 17:29but in the day that Lot [Veil, Covering] went out from Sodom [Burning], Yahweh caused it to rain fire and sulfur from the sky, + 17:29. Quoted from Gen 19:23-24and destroyed them all.

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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