21 But (A)wild animals will lie down there,
    and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (B)ostriches[a] will dwell,
    and there wild goats will dance.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:21 Or owls

13 (A)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (B)jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:13 Or owls

39 (A)“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon,[a] and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon

(A)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
    and mourning (D)like the ostriches.

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