“Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 34 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.