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Selected Verse: Isaiah 34:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 34:9 |
Strong Concordance |
And the streams [05158] thereof shall be turned [02015] into pitch [02203], and the dust [06083] thereof into brimstone [01614], and the land [0776] thereof shall become burning [01197] pitch [02203]. |
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King James |
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Images from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24-28; so Deu 29:23; Jer 49:17-18). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And the streams thereof - The idea here is, that there would be as great and awful a destruction as if the streams everywhere should become pitch or resin, which would be set on fire, and which would fill the land with flame. This image is very striking, as we may see by supposing the rivers and streams in any land to flow not with water, but with heated pitch, turpentine, or tar, and that this was all suddenly kindled into a flame. It cannot be supposed that this is to be taken literally. The image is evidently taken from the destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah (Gen 19:25-28), an image which is more fully used in reference to the same subject in Jer 49:17-18 : 'And Edom shall be a desolation;... as in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbor cities thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.'
And the dust thereof into brimstone - The ruin shall be as entire as if all the soil were turned into brimstone, which should be ignited and left burning. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The land - Idumea shall be dealt with, as Sodom and Gomorrah were. |
17 Also Edom [0123] shall be a desolation [08047]: every one that goeth [05674] by it shall be astonished [08074], and shall hiss [08319] at all the plagues [04347] thereof.
18 As in the overthrow [04114] of Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017] and the neighbour [07934] cities thereof, saith [0559] the LORD [03068], no man [0376] shall abide [03427] there, neither shall a son [01121] of man [0120] dwell [01481] in it.
23 And that the whole land [0776] thereof is brimstone [01614], and salt [04417], and burning [08316], that it is not sown [02232], nor beareth [06779], nor any grass [06212] groweth [05927] therein, like the overthrow [04114] of Sodom [05467], and Gomorrah [06017], Admah [0126], and Zeboim [06636], which the LORD [03068] overthrew [02015] in his anger [0639], and in his wrath [02534]:
24 Then the LORD [03068] rained [04305] upon Sodom [05467] and upon Gomorrah [06017] brimstone [01614] and fire [0784] from the LORD [03068] out of heaven [08064];
25 And he overthrew [02015] those [0411] cities [05892], and all the plain [03603], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the cities [05892], and that which grew [06780] upon the ground [0127].
26 But his wife [0802] looked back [05027] from behind him [0310], and she became a pillar [05333] of salt [04417].
27 And Abraham [085] gat up early [07925] in the morning [01242] to the place [04725] where he stood [05975] before [06440] the LORD [03068]:
28 And he looked [08259] toward [06440] Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017], and toward [06440] all the land [0776] of the plain [03603], and beheld [07200], and, lo, the smoke [07008] of the country [0776] went up [05927] as the smoke [07008] of a furnace [03536].
17 Also Edom [0123] shall be a desolation [08047]: every one that goeth [05674] by it shall be astonished [08074], and shall hiss [08319] at all the plagues [04347] thereof.
18 As in the overthrow [04114] of Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017] and the neighbour [07934] cities thereof, saith [0559] the LORD [03068], no man [0376] shall abide [03427] there, neither shall a son [01121] of man [0120] dwell [01481] in it.
25 And he overthrew [02015] those [0411] cities [05892], and all the plain [03603], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the cities [05892], and that which grew [06780] upon the ground [0127].
26 But his wife [0802] looked back [05027] from behind him [0310], and she became a pillar [05333] of salt [04417].
27 And Abraham [085] gat up early [07925] in the morning [01242] to the place [04725] where he stood [05975] before [06440] the LORD [03068]:
28 And he looked [08259] toward [06440] Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017], and toward [06440] all the land [0776] of the plain [03603], and beheld [07200], and, lo, the smoke [07008] of the country [0776] went up [05927] as the smoke [07008] of a furnace [03536].