Isaiah 13:21

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But desert creatures will lie there; their houses will be full of howling creatures. Owls will dwell there, and goat-demons will dance there.

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  • Rev 18:2 : 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.'
  • Isa 34:11-15 : 11 The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell there. He will stretch over it a measuring line of chaos and stones of emptiness. 12 Its nobles will have no one there to call them a kingdom, and all its princes will come to nothing. 13 Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses. It will become a dwelling place for jackals, a home for ostriches. 14 Wild beasts will meet with hyenas, and satyrs will call to one another. There, the night creature will settle and find her place of rest. 15 There, the arrow snake will make her nest, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for her young in her shadow. Indeed, there the kites will gather, each one with its mate.

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  • Isa 34:11-15
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    11The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell there. He will stretch over it a measuring line of chaos and stones of emptiness.

    12Its nobles will have no one there to call them a kingdom, and all its princes will come to nothing.

    13Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses. It will become a dwelling place for jackals, a home for ostriches.

    14Wild beasts will meet with hyenas, and satyrs will call to one another. There, the night creature will settle and find her place of rest.

    15There, the arrow snake will make her nest, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for her young in her shadow. Indeed, there the kites will gather, each one with its mate.

  • Jer 50:39
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    39Therefore, desert creatures and hyenas will dwell there, and ostriches will inhabit it. It will never again be inhabited or settled from generation to generation.

  • Isa 13:22
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    22Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

  • Isa 13:20
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    20It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, and no shepherds will let their flocks lie down there.

  • Isa 32:13-14
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    13The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.

    14For the palace will be deserted, the bustling city abandoned; the hill and the watchtower will become wastelands forever—a delight for wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

  • Jer 51:37-38
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    37Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.

    38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Zeph 2:14-15
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    14Flocks and all kinds of wild animals will lie down in her midst; even the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge on her columns. Their voices will echo through the windows, rubble will fill the thresholds, for her cedar paneling has been laid bare.

    15This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

  • Isa 35:7
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    7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lie, grass will grow with reeds and rushes.

  • Jer 10:22
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    22Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the northern land to make the cities of Judah desolate, a dwelling place for jackals.

  • Jer 49:33
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    33Hazor will become a dwelling place for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no human being will live in it.

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

    11Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Isa 56:9
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    9All you wild animals of the field, come and devour, all you creatures of the forest.

  • Job 15:28
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    28he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • Jer 50:3
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    3For a nation has come against her from the north; it will make her land desolate. No one will live there—neither man nor beast—all will flee and be gone.

  • Isa 18:6
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    6They will all be left for the birds of prey on the mountains and the wild animals of the earth. The birds will spend the summer feeding on them, and all the wild animals will winter upon them.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19They will all come and settle in the steep ravines, in the crevices of the rocks, on all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering places.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29At the sound of the horsemen and archers, every city flees. They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The cities are abandoned, and no one lives in them.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • Jer 7:33
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    33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

  • Lam 5:18
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    18Mount Zion, which lies desolate, is now roamed by foxes.

  • Jer 51:43
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    43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and barren land where no one lives, and through which no man passes.

  • Jer 50:13
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    13Because of the LORD's wrath, she will not be inhabited but will become completely desolate. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

  • Jer 33:12
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    12This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this desolate place, without people or animals, and in all its towns, there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

  • Jer 33:10
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    10This is what the Lord says: You say of this place, 'It is desolate, without people or animals,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, without people, inhabitants, or animals.

  • Isa 14:23
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    23I will make her a possession for hedgehogs and swamps of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,' declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • Jer 51:62
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    62Then say, 'O Lord, You have said concerning this place that You will cut it off, so that no one will dwell in it—neither man nor beast—but it will lie desolate forever.'

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • Isa 17:2
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    2The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks, where they will lie down, and no one will disturb them.

  • Isa 30:6
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  • Ezek 19:7
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    7He destroyed their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and its fullness were desolated at the sound of his roaring.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.

  • Ezek 31:13
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    13All the birds of the sky rested on its fallen trunk, and all the wild animals were among its branches.

  • Ezek 14:15
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    15If I send wild beasts through the land and they ravage it, leaving it desolate so that no one can pass through because of the beasts,

  • Joel 1:18
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    18How the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander in confusion because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish, along with the beasts of the field, the birds of the skies, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

  • Job 37:8
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    8The beasts retreat to their dens and dwell in their shelters.

  • Ezek 29:11
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    11No foot of man or beast will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

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    22I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

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    8The nursing child will play near the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.