Isaiah 34:11
and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16and every raven, and the birds like it, and the hawk and his like,
2 Kings 21:13And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.
Isaiah 14:23And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Lamentations 2:8And he has turned to destroy 1 The wall of the daughter of Zion: 1 He has stretched out the measuring line, 1 He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: 1 Therefore the bulwark mourned, 1 And the wall was weakened with it. 1
Malachi 1:3and hated Esau, and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?
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 →