Isaiah 34:10

⁸ For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

¹¹ The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

¹² No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
KJV: 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.
WEB: It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: Night and day it will not be quenched; her smoke will ascend forever; she will be desolate from generation to generation; no one will pass through her forever and ever;

ÅB: Hverken natt eller dag skal det slukne, til evig tid skal røyken av det stige opp; fra slekt til slekt skal det ligge øde, aldri i evighet drar noen igjennom det.
OTB: Det skal ikke slukkes natt eller dag; dens røyk skal stige opp for alltid. Fra generasjon til generasjon skal det ligge øde; ingen skal passere gjennom det for evig og alltid.
B1930: Hverken natt eller dag skal det slukne, til evig tid skal røken av det stige op; fra slekt til slekt skal det ligge øde, aldri i evighet drar nogen igjennem det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Revelation 19:3
And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”
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Isaiah 66:24
“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
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Malachi 1:3–4
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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Isaiah 13:20
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
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Revelation 18:18
and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.
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Isaiah 1:31
The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.
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Revelation 14:10–11
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
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Ezekiel 29:11
No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
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