OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 34:9

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

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Verse 9. Pitch. The soil was sulphureous, and became neglected, (verse 10) like the territory of Sodom. The people are now no more, and only a few miserable Arabs pitch their tents there.

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