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10 The fires will burn night and day.
    The smoke will rise from Edom forever.
Year after year that land will be empty.
    No one will ever travel through that land again.
11 Birds and small animals will own that land.
    Owls and ravens will live there.
God will make it an empty wasteland.
    It will have nothing left in it.
12 The important men will have no one left to rule them.
    The leaders will all be gone.

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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.