Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, and her dust into brimstone; and the land thereof shall become pitch that burneth.

10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; for ever its smoke shall go up; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; for ever and ever there shall be none passing through it.

[*](4. ‘waste,’ or, ‘moulder away.)[*](7. ‘come ’ i.e. to slaughter: some take it ‘fall.)[*](8. Or, ‘to plead for ’)[*](10. Some rearrange the clauses, joining the adverbial phrase of each clause to the previous one, and leaving the last unqualified. Cf. Lxx.)

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11 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; and the horned owl and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of wasteness and the plummet of void.

12 As for the nobles thereof, none shall be there to proclaim the kingdom ; and all her princes shall be no more.