Isaiah 34:9
World English Bible (WEB)
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
In context
7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
10 It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isaiah 34:9 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
- 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.
- 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.