Isaiah 34:13
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Note Or serpents or dragons
Note Literally for daughters of an ostrich or for daughters of an owl
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.
Note owls: or, ostriches: Heb. daughters of the owl
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thorns
- Isaiah 32:13, 14; Hosea 9:6; Zephaniah 2:9
- an habitation
- Isaiah 13:21, 22; Isaiah 35:7; Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 49:33; Jeremiah 50:39, 40; Jeremiah 51:37; Malachi 1:3; Revelation 18:2, 20–24