Jeremiah 50:39

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן יֵשְׁב֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְיָ֥שְׁבוּ בָ֖הּ בְּנ֣וֹת יַֽעֲנָ֑ה וְלֹֽא־תֵשֵׁ֥ב עוֹד֙ לָנֶ֔צַח וְלֹ֥א תִשְׁכּ֖וֹן עַד־דּ֥וֹר וָדֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

Therefore yēšbû ṣiyyîm with-ʾiyyîm, and-yāšbû in-her bĕnôt yaʿănâ; and-not-tēšēb again lāneṣaḥ, and-not tiškôn unto-dôr wādôr.

Grammar Details

*lākēn*: adverb - therefore/thus
*yēšbû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will dwell/inhabit
*ṣiyyîm*: masculine plural noun - desert creatures/wild beasts
*ʾet*: preposition - with
*ʾiyyîm*: masculine plural noun - howling creatures/jackals
*wĕ*: conjunction - and
*yāšbû*: Qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will dwell
*bāh*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - in her
*bĕnôt*: feminine plural noun, construct - daughters of
*yaʿănâ*: feminine singular noun - ostrich
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*tēšēb*: Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - she will be inhabited
*ʿôd*: adverb - again/still/yet
*lāneṣaḥ*: preposition + masculine singular noun - forever
*tiškôn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - she will be inhabited/dwelt in
*ʿad*: preposition - until/unto
*dôr*: masculine singular noun - generation
*wādôr*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and generation

Word Meanings

*ṣiyyîm*: desert creatures/wild beasts/wild cats
*ʾiyyîm*: howling creatures/jackals/hyenas
*bĕnôt yaʿănâ*: daughters of the ostrich/ostriches/owl
*tēšēb*: will be inhabited/dwelt in/lived in
*lāneṣaḥ*: forever/eternally/perpetually
*tiškôn*: will be inhabited/dwelt in
*dôr wādôr*: generation to generation/forever

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Referenced Verses

Isa 13:20-22 : 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Jer 25:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jer 50:12-13 : 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jer 51:26 : 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Jer 51:37-38 : 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
Jer 51:43 : 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Jer 51:62-64 : 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Rev 18:21-24 : 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Isa 14:23 : 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isa 34:11-17 : 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

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