Zephaniah 2:14
English Standard Version
14 (A)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;[a]
(B)even the owl and the hedgehog[b]
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for (C)her cedar work will be laid bare.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation
- Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain
Amos 9:1
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The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:
(A)“Strike the capitals until (B)the thresholds (C)shake,
(D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
(E)not one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.
Jeremiah 22:14
English Standard Version
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and (A)painting it with vermilion.
Isaiah 34:11-17
English Standard Version
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]
14 (F)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[d] settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there (G)the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 (H)He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
- Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
- Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain
Isaiah 13:19-22
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19 And Babylon, (A)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (B)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (C)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (D)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (E)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (F)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (G)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[b] will cry in its towers,
and (H)jackals in (I)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Revelation 18:2
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2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Isaiah 14:23
English Standard Version
23 “And I will make it a possession of the (A)hedgehog,[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
Zephaniah 2:6
English Standard Version
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves
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