Isaiah 34:13

And sirim (thorns) shall come up in her citadels, 1 nettles and brambles in the strongholds thereof; 1 and it shall become the habitation of jackals, 1 and the abode for banot ya'anah (ostriches). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

12For the nobles thereof 1 there shall be nothing to call a maluchah (kingdom) 1 and all her sarim shall come to naught. 1

14The tziyyim (martens) shall also encounter iyyim (wild cats), 1 and a sa'ir (wild goat) calls to its companion, 1 and lilit (night creature) dwells there 1 and finds for itself a mano'ach (place of rest). 1

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Cross References

Psalms 44:19Libenu (our heart) is not turned back, 1 neither have our steps departed from Thy way; 1

Isaiah 32:13Upon the admat Ami (land of My People) 1 shall come up kotz (thorns) and briers; 1 indeed, upon all the batim (houses) of joy 1 in the city of merriment; 1

Isaiah 35:7And the sharav (burning sand) shall become an agam (pool, lake, pond) 1 and the thirsty land, springs of mayim; 1 in the habitation of jackals, where each [jackal] lay, shall be khatzir (grassland) 1 as well as reeds and gomeh (papyrus, bulrushes). 1

Jeremiah 10:22Hinei, the noise! The report is come, 1 and a great commotion out of Eretz Tzafon, 1 to make the towns of Yehudah desolate, 1 and a haunt of jackals. 1

Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the hyenas shall dwell in her, + 50:39 Babylon and the ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited lanetzach (forever); neither shall it be dwelt in from dor vador.

Jeremiah 51:43Her towns are a horror to behold, 1 a dry land, and an aravah, 1 a land wherein no ish dwelleth, 1 neither doth any ben adam pass thereby. 1

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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