Isaiah 34:9

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And its streams will be turned to pitch, its soil to sulfur; its land will become burning pitch.

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  • Deut 29:23 : 23 All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
  • Luke 17:29 : 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Rev 19:20 : 20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf. By these signs he had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
  • Job 18:15 : 15 What does not belong to him will dwell in his tent; burning sulfur will be scattered over his dwelling.
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and the entire plain, and he saw that smoke was rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

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    10It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation, it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

  • Deut 29:23-24
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    23All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'

    24And they will answer, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Jer 49:17-18
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    17Edom will become a desolation; everyone who passes by her will be appalled and hiss because of all her wounds.

    18As with the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, says the LORD, no one will live there; no human being will stay in it.

  • Mic 1:4
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    4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split open like wax before the fire, like water cascading down a slope.

  • Isa 9:18-19
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    18By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

    19They carve meat on the right, but they are still hungry; they devour on the left, but they are not satisfied. Each eats the flesh of his own arm.

  • Amos 1:11-12
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    11Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and suppressed compassion. His anger tore continually, and his wrath remained forever.'

    12So I will send fire upon Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.

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    8For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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    12The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.

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    13Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off both man and beast from it. I will make it a wasteland from Teman to Dedan, and they will fall by the sword.

    14I will take my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to my anger and my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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    3Before them, fire devours; behind them, flames blaze. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is a desolate wilderness—nothing escapes them.

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    9Smoke rose from his nostrils, and consuming fire came from his mouth; burning coals blazed out from him.

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    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

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    22For a fire has been kindled in My wrath, and it burns to the depths of Sheol. It consumes the earth and its produce and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

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    6On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.

  • Isa 34:3
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    3Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will be dissolved with their blood.

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