Isaiah 34:10

“Night and day it will not be quenched; forever its smoke will rise; from generation to generation it will lie waste; for ever and ever no one will pass through it.”
Isaiah 34:10 · direct translation from the Hebrew

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Nightלַיְלָהand dayוְיוֹמָםit will notלֹאbe quenched;תִכְבֶּהforeverלְעוֹלָםits smokeעֲשָׁנָהּwill rise;יַעֲלֶהfrom generationמִדּוֹרto generationלָדוֹרit will lie waste;תֶּחֱרָבfor ever and everלְנֵצַח נְצָחִיםno oneאֵיןwill passעֹבֵרthrough it.בָּהּ

Allusion · Revelation 19:3

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Both texts say that her smoke goes up forever.

They share words that are rare in the original, without a quotation.

עֲשָׁנָashanaH6227καπνὸςkapnosG2586“smoke”
יַעֲלֶהyaaleH5927ἀναβαίνειanabaineiG305“go up”

Isaiah 34:10, word by word

Nightלַיְלָהlayla

night

Night.

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and dayיוֹמָםyomam

by day

By day, in the daytime.

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be quenchedתִכְבֶּהtichbe

go out, quench

Go out (of fire or a lamp); put out, quench.

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foreverעוֹלָםolam

forever

Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.

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its smokeעֲשָׁנָashana

smoke

Smoke.

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will riseיַעֲלֶהyaale

rise

To rise: the sun, the smoke.

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from generationדּוֹרdor

generation

The people of the same time.

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it will lie wasteתֶּחֱרָבtecherav

lie in ruins

To be left in ruins.

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for ever and everנֵצַחnetsach

forever

Forever, without end; with not, never again.

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will passעֹבֵרover

pass

To get over a river, or go through a land.

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Translation note

Revelation 14:11 and 19:3 take up the image of the smoke that rises forever.

The context

9And its torrents will be turned into pitch, and its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.

10 · This verse (above)

11And the pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, and the ibis and the raven will dwell in it; and he will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.

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