10 It shall not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall go up evermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation; none shall pass through it forever.

11 But the pelican [a]and the hedgehog shall possess it, and the great owl, and the raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line of [b]vanity, and the stones of emptiness.

12 [c]The nobles thereof shall call to the kingdom, and there shall be none, and all the princes thereof shall be as nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 Read Isa. 13:21 and Zeph. 2:14.
  2. Isaiah 34:11 In vain shall any man go about to build it again.
  3. Isaiah 34:12 Meaning, here shall be neither order nor policy, nor state of commonweal.

10 It will not be quenched(A) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.(B)
From generation to generation(C) it will lie desolate;(D)
    no one will ever pass through it again.
11 The desert owl[a](E) and screech owl[b] will possess it;
    the great owl[c] and the raven(F) will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom(G)
    the measuring line of chaos(H)
    and the plumb line(I) of desolation.
12 Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
    all her princes(J) will vanish(K) away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
  2. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
  3. Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.