Isaiah 34:14

The 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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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

In Context

13Thorns will overgrow her palaces, nettles and thistles her fortresses. 1 It will be a habitation of jackals, a place for ostriches. 1

15Owls will make nests, lay and hatch their eggs, hatch and protect their young. 1 Yes, there hawks will gather, each one with its mate. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:21But wild animals of the desert will lie there. Their houses will be full of owls; 1 and ostriches and wild goats will skip about there. 1

Jeremiah 49:33Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a permanent wasteland. 1 No one will live there; no human being will stay there.”

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.”

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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