Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 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. 10 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.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23

[that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and i

Psalm 11:6

He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning 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, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Job 18:15

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Luke 17:29

But in that day Lot went out from Sodom he rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed them all.

Jude 1:7

As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, the same kind of way with these who indulged in fornication, and who went rear of queer flesh, are set forth an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and the FALSE prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

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