10 It will (A)not be quenched night or day;
Its (B)smoke will go up forever.
From (C)generation to generation it will be desolate;
(D)None will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But [a](E)pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And [b]owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the (F)line of [c]desolation
And the [d]plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is (G)no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be (H)nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 Or owl or jackdaw
  2. Isaiah 34:11 Or great horned owl
  3. Isaiah 34:11 Or formlessness
  4. Isaiah 34:11 Lit stones of void