Isaiah 13:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals in the luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is almost up; her days are almost over.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:33

For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.

Isaiah 35:7

the parched ground will become a pool, and the thirsty land, springs. In the haunt of jackals,  in their lairs, there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians  is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

2 Peter 2:3

They will exploit  you in their greed  with made-up stories. Their condemnation,  pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it testifies about the end and will not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, since it will certainly come and not be late.

Isaiah 34:13

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briars. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode  for ostriches.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance and retribution belong to me.  , In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.’

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,

Isaiah 43:20

Wild animals – jackals and ostriches #– #will honour me, because I provide water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

Jeremiah 48:16

Moab’s calamity is near at hand; his disaster is rushing swiftly.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches  in the wilderness.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like ostriches.

Isaiah 14:23

‘I will make her a swampland and a region for herons,  and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.’ This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies.

Isaiah 34:14

The desert creatures will meet hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. Indeed, the night birds will stay there and will find a resting place.

Zephaniah 2:14

Herds will lie down in the middle of it, every kind of wild animal. Both eagle owls  and herons will roost in the capitals of its pillars. Their calls will sound  from the window, but devastation  will be on the threshold, for he will expose the cedar work.