Isaiah 34:10

10 The fires will burn night and day; the smoke will rise from Edom forever. Year after year that land will be empty; no one will ever travel through that land again.

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 has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.

9 Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar.

10 The fires will burn night and day; the smoke will rise from Edom forever. Year after year that land will be empty; no one will ever travel through that land again.

11 Birds and small animals will own that land, and owls and ravens will live there. God will make it an empty wasteland; it will have nothing left in it.

12 The important people will have no one left to rule them; the leaders will all be gone.