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Isaiah 13:21

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13:21Wild animals will rest there,

the ruined47 houses will be full of hyenas.48

Ostriches will live there,

wild goats will skip among the ruins.49

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Footnotes

  1. 47 The word “ruined” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
  2. 48 The precise referent of this word in uncertain. See *אֹחַ. Various English versions translate as “owls” (e.g., , ), “wild dogs” (); “jackals” (); “howling creatures” (, ).
  3. 49 Heb “will skip there.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But desert creatures will lie there,

jackals will fill her houses;

there the owls will dwell,

and there the wild goats will leap about.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But desert creatures will lie down there,

and owls will fill the houses.

Ostriches will dwell there,

and wild goats will leap about.

NLTNew Living Translation

Desert animals will move into the ruined city,

and the houses will be haunted by howling creatures.

Owls will live among the ruins,

and wild goats will go there to dance.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But wild animals will lie down there,

and their houses will be full of howling creatures,

and the daughters of ostriches will live there,

and goats will dance there.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.