Isaiah 14:23
New King James Version
23 “I will also make it a possession for the (A)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 34:10-15
New King James Version
10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
(A)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
(B)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (C)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (D)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And (E)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
(F)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [c]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [d]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
- Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
- Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith
Jeremiah 51:29
New King James Version
29 And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every (A)purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
(B)To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:37-43
New King James Version
37 (A)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
(B)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
(C)I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
40 “I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.
41 “Oh, how (D)Sheshach[a] is taken!
Oh, how (E)the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
42 (F)The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 (G)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where (H)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 A code word for Babylon, Jer. 25:26
Jeremiah 51:62
New King James Version
62 then you shall say, ‘O Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that (A)none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’
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