Isaiah 34:9
Then shall the torrents thereof be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof, into brimstone,—So shall her land become burning pitch:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8For a day of avenging, hath Yahweh,—A year of requitals for the quarrel of Zion.
Cross References
Genesis 19:28and he looked out over the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and over all the face of the land of the circuit, and beheld and lo! the smoke of the land went up, like the smoke of a furnace.
Job 18:15There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Luke 17:29But, on the day Lot came out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:—
Revelation 19:20And the wild-beast, was taken, and, with him, the false prophet who wrought the signs before him, whereby he deceived them who received the mark of the wild-beast and them who were doing homage unto his image,—alive, were they two cast into the lake of fire that burneth 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 →