Isaiah 34:11
And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;
2 Kings 21:13And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down.
Isaiah 14:23And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Lamentations 2:8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.
Malachi 1:3and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
Revelation 18:21And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 34:10-17
Threatenings against God's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of… Read the whole commentary →