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Isaiah 13:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. "
Isaiah 13:21
Verse in Context
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19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
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Isaiah 13:1
"The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw."
Isaiah 13:2
"Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles."
Isaiah 13:3
"I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones."
Isaiah 13:4
"The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mustering the army for the battle."
Isaiah 13:5
"They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land."
Isaiah 13:6
"Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty."
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