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10 It will burn night and day,
    and will never be extinguished.
Its smoke will rise from generation to generation,
    and it will lie desolate forever and ever.
        And no one will pass through it.[a]

11 “But hawks and hedgehogs will possess it;
    owls and ravens will nest in it.
God[b] will stretch out over it a measuring line, and chaos,[c]
    and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles.[d]
12 They will name it “No Kingdom There,”
    and all its princes will come to nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads blazing pitch. 10 Night and day it will not be extinguished. Its smoke will go up forever; from generation to generation it will lie desolate. No one will ever pass through it again. LXX lacks the last line
  2. Isaiah 34:11 Lit. He
  3. Isaiah 34:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads a measuring line of chaos
  4. Isaiah 34:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads And plumb lines of emptiness are 12 its nobles; LXX reads and satyrs will live in it. 12 Its nobles