Isaiah 34:9
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.This verse in the real world
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- זֶפֶתzephethasphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun)
- גׇּפְרִיתgophrîythproperly, cypress-resin; by analogy, sulphur (as equally inflammable)
- בָּעַרbâʻarto kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish
- עָפָרʻâphârdust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
- הָפַךְhâphakto turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
- נַחַלnachala stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a broo
- אֶרֶץʼeretsthe earth (at large, or partitively a land)
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.