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.
Isaiah 34:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And thorns shall come up in its palaces and strongholds, nettles and brambles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, an abode for ostriches. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Thorns will grow up in its palaces, weeds and brambles in its fortresses. It will be a dwelling for jackals, a home for ostriches. Catholic Public Domain Version And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons and the pasture of ostriches. |
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.
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.
Listen! A noise #– #it is coming – a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.
Hazor will become a jackals’ den, a desolation for ever. No one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
Her cities have become a desolation, an arid desert, a land where no one lives, where no human being even passes through.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.
For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.
Therefore, as I live – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel – Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah: a place overgrown with weeds, a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.
but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.’
He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast. ,