Isaiah 34:9

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 34:9 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 19:28He 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.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:23All 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 anger.
  3. Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
  4. Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
  5. Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  6. Jude 1:7In 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.
  7. Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
  8. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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