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43 Her cities have become wasteland,
    a parched and arid land
Where no one lives,
    no one passes through.

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43 Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert(A) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.(B)

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43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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20 It shall never be inhabited,
    nor dwelt in, from age to age;
Arabians shall not pitch their tents there,
    nor shepherds rest their flocks there.(A)
21 But desert demons shall rest there
    and owls shall fill the houses;
There ostriches shall dwell,
    and satyrs[a] shall dance.(B)
22 Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles,
    and jackals in its luxurious palaces.
Its time is near at hand
    and its days shall not be prolonged.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:21 Satyrs: in the popular mind, demons of goatlike form dwelling in ruins, symbols of immorality; cf. Lv 17:7; Is 34:14.

20 She will never be inhabited(A)
    or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(B) will pitch their tents,
    there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures(C) will lie there,
    jackals(D) will fill her houses;
there the owls(E) will dwell,
    and there the wild goats(F) will leap about.
22 Hyenas(G) will inhabit her strongholds,(H)
    jackals(I) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(J)
    and her days will not be prolonged.(K)

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20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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