Isaiah 34:13
The deserted palaces and fortified buildings will be full of thorns and thistles. The ruins will be a place for jackals/wolves and owls to live.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
12There will be no princes; the people who have authority will have no kingdom to rule.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19But it is as though you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals, and abandoned us in a deep dark ravine.
Isaiah 32:13because only thorns and thistles will grow in your soil. Your houses where you had joyful parties and your city where you have been happy will be gone.
Isaiah 35:7The very dry ground will become a pool of water, and springs will provide water for the dry land. Grass and reeds and papyrus will grow in places where the jackals/wolves lived previously.
Jeremiah 10:22Listen! Our enemies’ armies in the north are making a very big noise/commotion as they march toward us. The towns in Judah will be destroyed, and they will become a place where jackals/wolves live.”
Jeremiah 50:39Soon only hyenas and other wild creatures will live there; and it will be a place where owls live. People will never live there again; it will be uninhabited forever [DOU].
Jeremiah 51:43The towns in Babylonia will become ruins, Babylonia will become a dry desert area. It will be a land in which no one lives and which no one walks through.
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 →