Isaiah 34:10

10 They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it.

Isaiah 34:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night nor day
It will be long burning, and shall not be extinguished until it is utterly consumed. The burning of Rome will continue long, especially the smoke of it; the kings of the earth, and others, are represented as standing and looking at it, and lamenting for it, ( Revelation 18:9 Revelation 18:18 ) :

the smoke thereof shall go up for ever;
this very phrase is what will be used by the saints in their "allelujahs", at the burning of Rome, ( Revelation 19:3 ) with which compare ( Revelation 14:11 ) :

from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
the land shall be no more manured and cultivated, nor the city rebuilt; when Babylon is once fallen, it shall never be raised up again, but always remain desolate, ( Revelation 18:2 Revelation 18:21 ) :

none shall pass through it for ever and ever;
no inhabitant in it, nor traveller through it; it will be so horrible and terrible, as none will care to dwell there, yea, not so much as to travel through it; see ( Jeremiah 49:18 ) .

Isaiah 34:10 In-Context

8 The LORD will have a day of vengeance, a year of revenge in defense of Zion.

9 Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.

10 They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it.

11 Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Owls and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

12 There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. All of its princes have disappeared.