Isaiah 34:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Young's Literal Translation
And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

King James Bible
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Hebrew
Her streams
נְחָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (nə·ḥā·le·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

will be turned
וְנֶהֶפְכ֤וּ (wə·ne·hep̄·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

to tar,
לְזֶ֔פֶת (lə·ze·p̄eṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2203: Asphalt

and her soil
וַעֲפָרָ֖הּ (wa·‘ă·p̄ā·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

to sulfur;
לְגָפְרִ֑ית (lə·ḡā·p̄ə·rîṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1614: Cypress-resin, sulphur

her land
אַרְצָ֔הּ (’ar·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

will become
וְהָיְתָ֣ה (wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a blazing
בֹּעֵרָֽה׃ (bō·‘ê·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

pitch.
לְזֶ֖פֶת (lə·ze·p̄eṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2203: Asphalt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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