John Trapp on Isaiah 34:8-9

Ver. 8. For the controverſie of Zion] i. e. Of the Church both Jewiſh and Chriſtian, ſaith Piſcator: Confer, Rev. 18.2.

Alludit ad vicinam & ſ[illegible: 1 letter]tu & ſcelere & clade Sodomam. lib. 5. de bell. Jud. Geog. l. 16. Ver. 9. And the ſtreams thereof ſhall be turned into pitch] Like the Lake of Sodom which is near to Idumea; and whereof Joſephus writeth, that an Ox, having all his legs bound, will not ſink into it, the water is ſo thick and pitchy. Strabo, though a ſtranger to this Prophecy, atteſteth the accompliſhment of it. Lyra ſaith, that in ſome part of Idumea there is ſtill aſcending a ſmoke of fire and brimſtone, as out of Mount Aetna in Sicily. And Hyperius thinketh that the Edomites are here further threatned with hell-torments. It ſhould ſeem ſo by the next words.