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10 Night and day it shall not be quenched;
    its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    no one shall pass through it forever and ever.(A)

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10 It will not be quenched(A) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.(B)
From generation to generation(C) it will lie desolate;(D)
    no one will ever pass through it again.

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Once more they said,

“Hallelujah!
The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”(A)

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And again they shouted:

“Hallelujah!(A)
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”(B)

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but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.(A) If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

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but Esau I have hated,(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.(C)

Edom(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.(G)

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24 And they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.(A)

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24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies(A) of those who rebelled(B) against me; the worms(C) that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched,(D) and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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20 It will never be inhabited
    or lived in for all generations;
Arabs will not pitch their tents there;
    shepherds will not make their flocks lie down there.(A)

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20 She will never be inhabited(A)
    or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(B) will pitch their tents,
    there no shepherds will rest their flocks.

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18 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,

“What city was like the great city?”(A)

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18 When they see the smoke of her burning,(A) they will exclaim, ‘Was there ever a city like this great city(B)?’(C)

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10 they will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.(A) 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image and for anyone who receives the brand of its name.”(B)

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10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,(A) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.(B) They will be tormented with burning sulfur(C) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever.(D) There will be no rest day or night(E) for those who worship the beast and its image,(F) or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”(G)

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11 No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.(A)

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11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.(A)

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31 The strong shall become like tinder
    and their work like a spark;
they and their work shall burn together,
    with no one to quench them.(A)

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31 The mighty man will become tinder
    and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
    with no one to quench the fire.(A)

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43 If your hand causes you to sin,[a] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,[b] to the unquenchable fire.[c](A) 45 And if your foot causes you to sin,[d] cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.[e][f](B) 47 And if your eye causes you to sin,[g] tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,[h](C) 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.43 Or stumble
  2. 9.43 Gk Gehenna
  3. 9.43 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  4. 9.45 Or stumble
  5. 9.45 Gk Gehenna
  6. 9.45 Other ancient authorities add 9.44 and 9.46, which are identical to 9.48
  7. 9.47 Or stumble
  8. 9.47 Gk Gehenna

43 If your hand causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell,(B) where the fire never goes out.(C) [44] [a] 45 And if your foot causes you to stumble,(D) cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.(E) [46] [b] 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble,(F) pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,(G) 48 where

“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
    and the fire is not quenched.’[c](H)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:44 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.
  2. Mark 9:46 Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.
  3. Mark 9:48 Isaiah 66:24

47 say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.(A) 48 All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.(B)

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47 Say to the southern forest:(A) ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume(B) all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north(C) will be scorched by it.(D) 48 Everyone will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenched.(E)’”

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20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.

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20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign(A) Lord says: My anger(B) and my wrath will be poured(C) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.(D)

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Impending Judgment on the Earth

24 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate,
    and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.(A)

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The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth

24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth(A)
    and devastate(B) it;
he will ruin its face
    and scatter(C) its inhabitants—

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