Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever.

New American Standard Bible

It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.

King James Version

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Holman Bible

It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.

International Standard Version

It will burn night and day, and will never be extinguished. Its smoke will rise from generation to generation, and it will lie desolate forever and ever. And no one will pass through it.

A Conservative Version

It shall not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste. None shall pass through it forever and ever.

American Standard Version

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Amplified


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.

Bible in Basic English

It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.

Darby Translation

it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

King James 2000

It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her.

Modern King James verseion

It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none passes through it forever and forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

so that it shall not be quenched day nor night, but smoke evermore and so forth to lie waste. And no man shall go through thy land forever.

NET Bible

Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

New Heart English Bible

It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

The Emphasized Bible

Neither night nor day, shall it be quenched, To times age-abiding, shall ascend the smoke thereof, - From generation to generation, shall it be waste, Never, never, shall any pass through it:

Webster

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall ascend for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

World English Bible

It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

Youngs Literal Translation

By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
It shall not be quenched
כּבה 
Kabah 
Usage: 24

לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

יומם 
Yowmam 
Usage: 53

the smoke
עשׁן 
`ashan 
Usage: 25

thereof shall go up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

it for ever
נצח נצח 
Netsach 
Usage: 43

References

American

Watsons

Context Readings

Judgment On The Nations

9 And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch. 10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever. 11 And the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and he stretched out upon it the line of desolation and the stones of emptiness.



Cross References

Revelation 19:3

And the second time they said, Alleluia. And her smoke goes up for ever and ever.

Isaiah 13:20

It shall not be inhabited forever, and it shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation: and the Arabian shall not go on there, and the shepherds shall not recline there.

Isaiah 66:24

And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.

Malachi 1:3-4

And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.

Ezekiel 29:11

The foot of man shall not pass through it, and the foot of cattle shall not pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited forty years.

Revelation 14:10-11

And the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mingled pure in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tortured in fire and sulphur before the holy angels, and before the Lamb:

Revelation 18:18

And cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What like the great city!

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 7:20

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah; Behold my anger and my wrath was poured out to this place, upon man, and upon cattle, and upon the tree of the field, and upon the fruit of the land; and it burnt and it shall not be quenched.

Ezekiel 20:47-48

And say to the forest of the south, Hear thou the word of Jehovah; thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me kindling a fire in thee, and it consumed in thee every green tree and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north were burned in it.

Mark 9:43-48

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire:

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