11 (A)But the hawk and the porcupine[a] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(B)He shall stretch the line of (C)confusion[b] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 (D)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (E)jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
  2. Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
  3. Isaiah 34:13 Or owls

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