9Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.


In Context

6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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 Yahweh 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 nor 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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

34:9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

34:9And the streams of Edom'shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:9And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:9And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

34:9And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.