Isaiah 34:11

But wild birds and animals will live there; the owl and the raven will make their nest in it. 1 He will stretch over it the measuring line of ruin and the plumbline of destruction. 1

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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 confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

In Context

10It will burn night and day; its smoke will rise forever; 1 from generation to generation it will be a wasteland; no one will pass through it forever and ever. 1

12Her nobles 1 will have nothing left to call a kingdom, and all her princes will be nothing. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:16the horned owl and the screech owl, the seagull, and any kind of hawk.

2 Kings 21:13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria, and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem clean, as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Isaiah 14:23“I will also make her into a possession of owls, and into pools of water, 1 and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction”—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. 1

Lamentations 2:8Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion. 1 He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall. 1 He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away. 1

Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountains an abandoned devastation, and I have made his inheritance a place for the jackals of the wilderness.”

Revelation 18:21A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, 1 “In this way, Babylon, the great city, 2 will be thrown down with violence 2 and will not be seen anymore. 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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