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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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33 When this matter became known and it was reported to the king of the Persians that, in the place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, the liquid had appeared with which Nehemiah and his associates had burned the materials of the sacrifice,

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36 Nehemiah and his associates called this “nephthar,” which means purification, but by most people it is called “naphtha.”

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