Isaiah 34:9

The streams of Edom will be turned into pitch, her dust into sulfur, 1 and her land will become burning pitch. 1

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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 will be a day of vengeance for Yahweh and a year when he will pay them back for the cause of Zion. 1

10It will burn night and day; its smoke will rise forever; 1 from generation to generation it will be a wasteland; no one will pass through it forever and ever. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain. He looked and behold, smoke was rising from the land like the smoke of a furnace.

Job 18:15People not his own will live in his tent 1 after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home. 1

Luke 17:29But in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed them all.

Revelation 19:20The beast was captured and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence. With these signs he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning 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 →

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