Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

Amplified


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

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 it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch: 10 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.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23

that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Genesis 19:28

and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.

Job 18:15

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

Luke 17:29

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all of them:

Jude 1:7

as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone;

Revelation 21:8

But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

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