Isa 13:20-22, 14:23, 34:9-17, Jer 9:11, 10:22, 49:17-18, 50:39-40, 51:37 | 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 .

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 14:23

23 “And I will make it a possession of the ^jhedgehog, ^{▼▼Possibly porcupine, or owl} and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 34:9-17

9 ^lAnd the streams of Edom ^{▼▼Hebrew her streams} shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day ⁿit shall not be quenched;
^oits smoke shall go up forever.
^pFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 ^qBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^sHe shall stretch the line of ^tconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} 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.
13 ^vThorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^wjackals,
an abode for ostriches. ^{▼▼Or owls}
14 ^yAnd wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there ^aathe hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 ^abHe has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Jeremiah 9:11

11 ^acI will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
^ada lair of jackals,
^aeand I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 10:22

22 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
^afa great commotion out of the north country
to make ^agthe cities of Judah a desolation,
^aha lair of jackals.

Jeremiah 49:17-18

17 ^ai“Edom shall become a horror. ^ajEveryone who passes by it will be horrified ^akand will hiss because of all its disasters. 18 ^alAs when Sodom and Gomorrah and their ^amneighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, ^anno man shall dwell there, ^aono man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 50:39-40

39 ^ap“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 ^aqAs when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, ^arso no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 51:37

37 and Babylon shall become ^asa heap of ruins,
^atthe haunt of jackals,
^aua horror ^avand a hissing,
without inhabitant.