Isaiah 34:9

And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

Young's Literal Translation

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

8(For a day of vengeance [is] to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

10By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

Job 18:15It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

Luke 17:29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

Revelation 19:20and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast — the two — to the lake of the fire, that is burning 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 →

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