Isaiah 34:9
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
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In Context
8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Cross References
Genesis 19:28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Job 18:15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
Luke 17:29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
Revelation 19:20The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake 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 →