Isaiah 13:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹But 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.

Isaiah 13:21 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Isaiah 34:11-15
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. …

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Animals Babylon Beasts Birds Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Cyrus

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-22)

The great havoc and destruction which it was foretold should be made by the Medes and Persians in Babylon here end in the final destruction of it. 1. It is allowed that Babylon was a noble city. It was the glory of kingdoms and the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency; it was that head of gold (Dan. 2:37, 38); it was called the lady of kingdoms (Isa. 47:5), the praise of the whole earth (Jer. 51:41)…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. wild beasts--Hebrew, tsiyim, animals dwelling in arid wastes. Wild cats, remarkable for their howl [Bochart]. doleful creatures--“howling beasts,” literally, “howlings” [Maurer]. owls--rather, “ostriches”; a timorous creature, delighting in solitary deserts and making a hideous noise [Bochart]. satyrs--sylvan demi-gods--half man, half goat--believed by the Arabs to haunt these ruins; probably…