King James Version
Isaiah 34:9 in the King James Version says “And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall beco...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.”
Isaiah 34:9 · KJV
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. unicorns: or, rhinocerots soaked: or, drunken
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; 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.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. cormorant: or, pelican
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thereof shall be turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“And the streams”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
“thereof into brimstone”
H1614properly, cypress-resin; by analogy, sulphur (as equally inflammable)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
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