Isaiah 34:9 “Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land…”

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the riuers thereof shall be turned into pitche, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shalbe burning pitch.

Darby Translation

And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

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Cross references

“And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.”

Deuteronomy 29:23 Psalm 11:6 Genesis 19:28 Job 18:15 Luke 17:29 Jude 1:7

Deuteronomy 29:23 · BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce an…

Psalm 11:6 · BSB

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

Genesis 19:28 · BSB

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Job 18:15 · BSB

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

Luke 17:29 · BSB

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Jude 1:7 · BSB

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

10It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

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