Isaiah 34:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 29:23 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Luke 17:29 : 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Rev 19:20 : 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • Job 18:15 : 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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