Isaiah 34:10

⁸ For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

⁹ 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.

¹¹ 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.

¹² They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be 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.

Compare

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 again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
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Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
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Malachi 1:3–4
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Isaiah 13:20
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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Revelation 18:18
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
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Isaiah 1:31
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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Revelation 14:10–11
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
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Ezekiel 29:11
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
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