Parallel Verses

Amplified


The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.

New American Standard Bible

Its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its loose earth into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;
her land will become burning pitch.

International Standard Version

Edom's streams will be turned into burning sulfur, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become pitch.

A Conservative Version

And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy floods shall be turned to pitch, and thine earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the land be kindled,

NET Bible

Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Then shall the torrents thereof be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof, into brimstone, - So shall her land become burning pitch:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the streams
נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

זפת 
Zepheth 
Usage: 3

and the dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

גּפרית 
Gophriyth 
Usage: 7

and the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

References

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Judgment On The Nations

8
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.
9 
The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
10
The burning will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will lie in ruins;
No one will ever again pass through it.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23

‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.’

Psalm 11:6


Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire;
Fire and brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley [of the Dead Sea]; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a kiln (pottery furnace).

Job 18:15


“Nothing of his dwells in his tent;
Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it].

Luke 17:29

but on the [very] day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone (burning sulfur) from heaven and destroyed them all.

Jude 1:7

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent cities, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in gross immoral freedom and unnatural vice and sensual perversity. They are exhibited [in plain sight] as an example in undergoing the punishment of everlasting fire.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast (Antichrist) was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who, in his presence, had performed [amazing] signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were hurled alive into the lake of fire which blazes with brimstone.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowards and unbelieving and abominable [who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality], and murderers, and sorcerers [with intoxicating drugs], and idolaters and occultists [who practice and teach false religions], and all the liars [who knowingly deceive and twist truth], their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

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