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21 Wild animals will rest there,
the ruined[a] houses will be full of hyenas.[b]
Ostriches will live there,
wild goats will skip among the ruins.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:21 tn The word “ruined” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
  2. Isaiah 13:21 tn The precise referent of this word in uncertain. See HALOT 29 s.v. *אֹחַ. Various English versions translate as “owls” (e.g., NAB, NASB), “wild dogs” (NCV); “jackals” (NIV); “howling creatures” (NRSV, NLT).
  3. Isaiah 13:21 tn Heb “will skip there.”