Isaiah 34:9
King James Version (KJV)
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
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.
Isaiah 34:9 in every translation
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:
- WBS Webster Bible
- And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.