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. 10 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.
Isaiah 34:8–10
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