Isaiah 34:13

Thorns will overgrow her palaces, nettles and thistles her fortresses. 1 It will be a habitation of jackals, a place for ostriches. 1

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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

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

14The wild animals and the hyenas will meet there, and the wild goats will cry to one another. 1 Nocturnal animals will settle there and find for themselves a place of rest. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 44:19Yet you have severely broken us in the place of jackals 1 and covered us with the shadow of death. 1

Isaiah 32:13The land of my people will be overgrown with thorns and briers, 1 even in all the once joyful houses in the city of revelry. 1

Isaiah 35:7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; 1 in the habitation of jackals, where they once lay, will be grass with reeds and rushes. 1

Jeremiah 10:22The report of news has arrived, “See! It is coming, a great earthquake is coming from the land of the north 1 To make the cities of Judah into ruins, hideouts for jackals.” 1

Jeremiah 50:39So desert beasts with the jackals will inhabit there, and the young of ostriches will live in her. 1 For all time, she will no longer be inhabited. From generation to generation, she will not be lived in. 1

Jeremiah 51:43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, 1 a land that no one inhabits, and no human being passes through. 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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