Isaiah 34:13

Then shall come up, in her palaces thorns Nettles and thistles in her fortresses,—And she shall become A home for wild dogs, An enclosure for ostriches;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

12Her nobles (but none, are, there)! unto royalty, will call,—All, all her princes, shall become nought.

14Then shall criers meet with howlers, And, the shaggy creature, unto his fellow, shall call,—Only, there, shall, the night-spectre, Make her settlement, And find for herself a place of rest:

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Cross References

Psalms 44:19That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Isaiah 32:13Over the soil of my people, thorns and briars shall grow,—Yea over all houses of joy, thou city exultant!

Isaiah 35:7Then shall the glowing sand, become a lake, And thirsty ground—springs of water,—In the home of the wild dog—its lair, Shall be an enclosure for cane and paper—reed.

Jeremiah 10:22The noise of a rumour! lo it hath come! Even a great commotion out of the land of the North,—To make the cities of Judah, A desolation, A den of jackals.

Jeremiah 50:39Therefore shall the criers dwell with, the howlers, Yea ostriches, shall dwell therein,—So shall it be dwelt in no more for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited unto generation after generation.

Jeremiah 51:43Her cities have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain,—A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor pass through them a son of the earth-born!

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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