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Isaiah 14:23

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23“I will also make it a possession for the ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of 1bdestruction,” declares Yahweh of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or extermination, cf. 13:9

Cross references

  1. aIs 34:11; Zeph 2:14
  2. b1 Kin 14:10; Is 13:6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“I will turn her into a place for owls

and into swampland;

I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,”

declares the Lord Almighty.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“I will make her a swampland and a region for herons, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

NLTNew Living Translation

“I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls,

filled with swamps and marshes.

I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction.

I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,

and pools of water,

and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,”

declares Yahweh of hosts.

KJV 1900King James Version

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:

And I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.