Isaiah 34:9
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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Genesis 19:28 He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

Job 18:15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Luke 17:29 And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Context
God's Judgments on the Nations
8For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion. 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.10Night and day it shall not be quenched, 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
Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:

Psalm 11:6
The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Isaiah 30:33
For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes.

Lexicon
Her streams
נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (nə·ḥā·le·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

will be turned
וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ (wə·ne·hep̄·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

to tar,
לְזֶ֔פֶת (lə·ze·p̄eṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2203: Asphalt

and her soil
וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ (wa·‘ă·p̄ā·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

to sulfur;
לְגָפְרִ֑ית (lə·ḡā·p̄ə·rîṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1614: Cypress-resin, sulphur

her land
אַרְצָ֔הּ (’ar·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

will become
וְהָיְתָ֣ה (wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a blazing
בֹּעֵרָֽה׃ (bō·‘ê·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

pitch.
לְזֶ֖פֶת (lə·ze·p̄eṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2203: Asphalt


Additional Translations
Her streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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