Isa 13:21-22, 34:11-15, Jer 50:39-40, 51:42-43, Zep 2:14, Rev 14:8 | ESV | STEP | But wild animals will lie down there , and their houses will be full of howling creatures ; there ostriches will dwell , and there wild goats will dance .

Isaiah 13:21-22

21 But ^awild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^bostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas ^{▼▼Or foxes} will cry in its towers,
and ^ejackals in ^fthe pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:11-15

11 ^gBut 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.
ⁱHe shall stretch the line of ^jconfusion ^{▼▼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 ^lThorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^mjackals,
an abode for ostriches. ^{▼▼Or owls}
14 ^oAnd 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 ^qthe hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.

Jeremiah 50:39-40

39 ^r“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 ^sAs when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, ^tso no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 51:42-43

42 ^uThe sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
^va land of drought and a desert,
^wa land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.

Zephaniah 2:14

14 ^xHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts; ^{▼▼Hebrew beasts of every nation}
^zeven the owl and the hedgehog ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain}
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for ^abher cedar work will be laid bare.

Revelation of John 14:8

8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, ^ac“Fallen, fallen is ^adBabylon the great, ^aeshe who made all nations drink ^afthe wine of the passion ^{▼▼Or wrath} of her sexual immorality.”