Isaiah 34:10

Hebrew Bible

8 For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion. 9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch. 10 Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland, and no one will ever pass through it again. 11 Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The Lord will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction. 12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom, and all her officials will disappear.

Baruch 4:35

Deuterocanon

33 For just as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad for your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation. 34 I will take away her pride in her great population, and her insolence will be turned to grief. 35 For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days, and for a long time she will be inhabited by demons. 36 Look toward the east, O Jerusalem, and see the joy that is coming to you from God. 37 Look, your children are coming, whom you sent away; they are coming, gathered from east and west, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

 Notes and References

"... The main source for verse 4:35 is evidently Isaiah 13:20–21, an oracle about the desolation of Babylon, which shares several key terms with Baruch, such as κα- τοικέω “to inhabit,” δαιμόνιον “demon,” and, with variations, the expression αἰῶνα χρόνον “eternal time.” The latter is changed in Baruch to πλείονα χρόνον “a longer time,” and the word αἰών is altered to the divine title αἰώνιος “eternal”... A similar passage can be found in Isaiah 34:10–14, an oracle against Edom, where - although in a less concentrated manner - all of the above mentioned terms occur (αἰῶνα χρόνον in 34:10; κατοικέω in 34:11; δαιμόνιον in 34:14). This pericope of Isaiah presupposes additionally the burning of the enemy when the author writes that ἀναβήσεται ὁ καπνὸς αὐτῆς “her smoke shall rise up” (34:10). The idea that Babylon will be consumed by fire occurs in the Book of Jeremiah - as scholars generally remark—but passages like Jeremiah 27 (Masoretic 50):32, 42, or 28 (Masoretic 51):32 do not seem to directly influence the present verse ..."

Xeravits, Géza G. "The Biblical Background of the Psalms in Baruch 4:5–5:9" in Adams, Sean A. (ed.) Studies on Baruch: Composition, Literary Relations, and Reception (pp. 97-133) De Gruyter, 2016

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