Isaiah 34:13

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of + 34:13 Vide supra, Job 30. 29; Is. 13. 21, etc.monsters, and a court for ostriches.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

In Context

12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

14And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.

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Cross References

Isaiah 32:13As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.

Isaiah 35:7And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

Jeremiah 10:22Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.

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 →

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