Isaiah 34:13
Thorns will grow over its palaces; weeds and thistles will take over its fortresses. It will be a place where jackals live, a home for owls.
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12Its nobles won't have anything to call a kingdom; all its princes will be gone.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Even so, you crushed us, and made us into a jackal's den. You have covered us with the darkness of death.
Isaiah 32:13over the loss of the land of my people. Mourn because it's now overgrown with thorns and brambles, mourn because of the loss of all the happy homes and joyful towns.
Isaiah 35:7The dried-up ground will become like a pool, the arid land like water springs. In the place where jackals used to live, there will be grass and reeds and rushes.
Jeremiah 10:22Listen to the news that a noisy army is invading from a country to the north. The towns of Judah will be knocked down, they will be places where only jackals live.
Jeremiah 50:39Consequently desert animals and hyenas will live there, and it will be a home for owls. It will be uninhabited forever—it won't be lived in from one generation to the next.
Jeremiah 51:43The towns of Babylonia are in ruins, turned into a dry desert wasteland where no one lives—no one even passes by.
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 →