KJV 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.
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Isaiah 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
WEB World English Bible
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
ASV American Standard Version
And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 34
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For [it is] the day of the LORD’S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּH2015 · ha.phakhto overturnנְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙H5158 · na.chaltorrent: riverלְזֶ֔פֶתH2203 · ze.phetpitchוַעֲפָרָ֖הּH6083 · a.phardustלְגָפְרִ֑יתH1614 · goph.ritbrimstoneוְהָיְתָ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beאַרְצָ֔הּH776 · e.retsland: country/planetלְזֶ֖פֶתH2203 · ze.phetpitchבֹּעֵרָֽה׃H1197 · ba.arto burn: burn
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 29:23[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:Psalm 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.Luke 17:29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.Genesis 19:28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.Job 18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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