Isa 13:20-22, 14:22-23, Jer 51:29, 62-64, Rev 18:21-23 | ESV | STEP | It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations ; no Arab will pitch his tent there ; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there .

u[See ver. 63 above]

v ver. 58

w ch. 5:2; 10:1

x[Jer. 51:63, 64]

y ver. 10

z Isa. 14:11; 24:8; Ezek. 26:13

aa Eccles. 12:4; Jer. 25:10

ab Jer. 7:34; 16:9; 33:11

ac Isa. 23:8

ad Nah. 3:4

Isaiah 13:20-22

20 ^aIt will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no ^bArab will pitch his tent there;
no ^cshepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But ^dwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^eostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas ^{▼▼Or foxes} will cry in its towers,
and ^hjackals in ⁱthe pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14:22-23

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and ^jremnant, ^kdescendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the ^lhedgehog, ^{▼▼Possibly porcupine, or owl} and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:29

29 ⁿThe land trembles and writhes in pain,
^ofor the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:62-64

62 and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^pthat nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^qdesolate forever.’ 63 When you finish reading this book, ^r, ^stie a stone to it ^tand cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ^u‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, ^vand they shall become exhausted.’”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Revelation of John 18:21-23

21 Then ^wa mighty angel ^xtook up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon ^ythe great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;
22 and ^zthe sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
will be found in you no more,
and ^aathe sound of the mill
will be heard in you no more,
23 and the light of a lamp
will shine in you no more,
and ^abthe voice of bridegroom and bride
will be heard in you no more,
for ^acyour merchants were the great ones of the earth,
and all nations were deceived ^adby your sorcery.