Isaiah 34:9
Isaiah 34:8-15 The Message (MSG)
It’s GOD’s scheduled time for vengeance, the year all Zion’s accounts are settled. Edom’s streams will flow sluggish, thick with pollution, the soil sterile, poisoned with waste, The whole country a smoking, stinking garbage dump— The fires burning day and night, the skies black with endless smoke. Generation after generation of wasteland— no more travelers through this country! Vultures and skunks will police the streets; owls and crows will feel at home there. God will reverse creation. Chaos! He will cancel fertility. Emptiness! Leaders will have no one to lead. They’ll name it No Kingdom There, A country where all kings and princes are unemployed. Thistles will take over, covering the castles, fortresses conquered by weeds and thornbushes. Wild dogs will prowl the ruins, ostriches have the run of the place. Wildcats and hyenas will hunt together, demons and devils dance through the night. The night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious, will establish permanent quarters. Scavenging carrion birds will breed and brood, infestations of ominous evil.
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.
Isaiah 34:9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:9 New Century Version (NCV)
Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar.
Isaiah 34:9 American Standard Version (ASV)
And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:9 New International Version (NIV)
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
Isaiah 34:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:9 New Living Translation (NLT)
The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire.