Isaiah 34:10

The smoke thereof. Compare similar expressions in Rev. 14:11 and 19:3. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is set forth as an example of “the vengeance of eternal fire,” which will destroy the wicked (Jude 7). Those cities, whose destruction was “an ensample” to the “ungodly,” were consumed “into ashes” (2 Peter 2:6). All the wicked are likewise to be utterly destroyed and consumed “into smoke” (Ps. 37:20). Proud Babylon, whose smoke “rose up for ever and ever” (Rev. 19:3), will be “utterly burned with fire” (Rev. 18:8). The fires of the last day will leave the wicked “neither root nor branch” (Mal. 4:1, 3; cf. Ps. 37:9, 10; Obadiah 10), and as if they had never been (see Eze. 28:18, 19; Obadiah 16).