10 Night and day (A)it shall not be quenched;
    (B)its smoke shall go up forever.
(C)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (D)But the hawk and the porcupine[a] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(E)He shall stretch the line of (F)confusion[b] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
  2. Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness

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