Isaiah 34:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!

New Living Translation
The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire.

English Standard Version
And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.

Berean Study Bible
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing 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.

NASB 1995
Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.

NASB 1977
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land shall become burning pitch.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur; her land will become burning pitch.

Contemporary English Version
Edom's streams will turn into tar and its soil into sulfur--then the whole country will go up in flames.

Good News Translation
The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.

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

NET Bible
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

New King James Version
Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch.

King James 2000 Bible
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall 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.

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

American 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.

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.

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And the riuers thereof shall be turned into pitche, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shalbe burning pitch.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And his fluddes shalbe turned to pitch, and his earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the lande be kindled.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thy floudes shalbe turned to pytch, and thine earth to brymstone, & therwith shal the londe be kyndled,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And her streams have been turned to pitch, "" And her dust to brimstone, "" And her land has become burning pitch.

Young's Literal Translation
And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

Smith's Literal Translation
And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And its streams shall be turned to pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall be burning pitch

Lamsa Bible
And its streams shall be turned into pitch and its soil into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
















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