(A)And the streams of Edom[a] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (B)it shall not be quenched;
    (C)its smoke shall go up forever.
(D)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (E)But the hawk and the porcupine[b] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(F)He shall stretch the line of (G)confusion[c] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
  2. Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
  3. Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness

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