Isaiah 13:20-22

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²⁰She will never be inhabited^(A)
    or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads^(B) will pitch their tents,
    there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
²¹But desert creatures^(C) will lie there,
    jackals^(D) will fill her houses;
there the owls^(E) will dwell,
    and there the wild goats^(F) will leap about.
²²Hyenas^(G) will inhabit her strongholds,^(H)
    jackals^(I) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,^(J)
    and her days will not be prolonged.^(K)

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Jeremiah 9:11

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¹¹“I will make Jerusalem a heap^(A) of ruins,
a haunt of jackals;^(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(C)
so no one can live there.”^(D)

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Jeremiah 10:22

New International Version

²²Listen! The report is coming—
a great commotion from the land of the north!^(A)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,^(B)
a haunt of jackals.^(C)

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Jeremiah 51:37

New International Version

³⁷Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
a haunt^(A) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,^(B)
a place where no one lives.^(C)

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Zephaniah 2:9

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⁹Therefore, as surely as I live,”
    declares the Lord Almighty,
    the God of Israel,
“surely Moab^(A) will become like Sodom,^(B)
    the Ammonites^(C) like Gomorrah—
a place of weeds and salt pits,
    a wasteland forever.
The remnant of my people will plunder^(D) them;
    the survivors^(E) of my nation will inherit their land.^(F)”

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Zephaniah 2:13-15

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Assyria

¹³He will stretch out his hand against the north
    and destroy Assyria,^(A)
leaving Nineveh^(B) utterly desolate
    and dry as the desert.^(C)
¹⁴Flocks and herds^(D) will lie down there,
    creatures of every kind.
The desert owl^(E) and the screech owl^(F)
    will roost on her columns.
Their hooting will echo through the windows,
    rubble will fill the doorways,
    the beams of cedar will be exposed.
¹⁵This is the city of revelry^(G)
    that lived in safety.^(H)
She said to herself,
    “I am the one! And there is none besides me.”^(I)
What a ruin she has become,
    a lair for wild beasts!^(J)
All who pass by her scoff^(K)
    and shake their fists.^(L)