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A Picture of Total Ruin
Commentators unanimously explain that the imagery of streams turning to pitch and dust to brimstone is not literal. Instead, it's a powerful, figurative description of absolute destruction. The prophet intentionally alludes to the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah to paint a picture of complete and irreversible divine judgment against Edom.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 34:9
18th Century
Theologian
And the streams of it — The idea here is that there would be as great and awful a destruction as if the streams everywhere were to become pi…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 34:9–10
19th Century
Bishop
The streams thereof shall be turned into pitch ... —The imagery of the punishment which is to fall on Edom is suggested p…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 34:9
16th Century
Theologian
And its streams shall be turned into pitch. What the Prophet now adds contains nothing new, but describes this desolation more fully. We h…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 34:9
17th Century
Pastor
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch
The Septuagint render it, "the valleys"; the word signifying both…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 34:9–17
17th Century
Minister
Those who aim to ruin the church can never achieve that, but will ruin themselves. What dismal changes sin can make! It turns a fruitful land into …