Isaiah 34:11
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The Lord will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
Note The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
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 confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Note cormorant: or, pelican
But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- cormorant
- or, pelican.
- Isaiah 13:20–22; Isaiah 14:23; Zephaniah 2:14; Revelation 18:2, 21–23
- stretch
- 2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Kings 21:13; Lamentations 2:8; Malachi 1:3, 4