以赛亚书 34:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以東的宮殿必長荊棘，它的堡壘必長蒺藜和刺草；它要作野狗的住處，作鴕鳥的居所。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 东 的 宫 殿 要 长 荆 棘 ； 保 障 要 长 蒺 藜 和 刺 草 ； 要 作 野 狗 的 住 处 ， 鸵 鸟 的 居 所 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar. ¹⁰ The fires will burn night and day; the smoke will rise from Edom forever. Year after year that land will be empty; no one will ever travel through that land again. ¹¹ Birds and small animals will own that land, and owls and ravens will live there. God will make it an empty wasteland; it will have nothing left in it. ¹² The important people will have no one left to rule them; the leaders will all be gone. ¹³ Thorns will take over the strong towers, and wild bushes will grow in the walled cities. It will be a home for wild dogs and a place for owls to live. ¹⁴ Desert animals will live with the hyenas, and wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will live there and find a place of rest. ¹⁵ Owls will nest there and lay eggs. When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their wings. Hawks will gather with their own kind. ¹⁶ Look at the Lord 's scroll and read what is written there: None of these will be missing; none will be without its mate. God has given the command, so his Spirit will gather them together. ¹⁷ God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thorns: Isaiah 32:13, Isaiah 32:14, Hosea 9:6, Zephaniah 2:9

an habitation: Isaiah 13:21, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 35:7, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 10:22, Jeremiah 49:33, Jeremiah 50:39, Jeremiah 50:40, Jeremiah 51:37, Malachi 1:3, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:20-24

owls: or, ostriches, Heb. daughters of the owl

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 14:9 - The thistle Psalms 44:19 - in the Isaiah 24:10 - city Hosea 10:8 - the thorn

Cross-References

Genesis 34:18
What they asked seemed fair to Hamor and Shechem.

Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

Genesis 34:23
If we do this, their cattle and their animals will belong to us. Let us do what they say, and they will stay in our land."

Genesis 34:24
All the people who had come to the city gate heard this. They agreed with Hamor and Shechem, and every man was circumcised.

Genesis 34:26
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem and then took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left.

Genesis 34:27
Jacob's sons came upon the dead bodies and stole everything that was in the city, to pay them back for what Shechem had done to their sister.

Genesis 34:28
So the brothers took the flocks, herds, and donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

Genesis 34:29
They took every valuable thing the people owned, even their wives and children and everything in the houses.

Judges 15:3
But Samson said to them, "This time no one will blame me for hurting you Philistines!"

Job 13:4
But you smear me with lies. You are worthless doctors, all of you!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thorns shall come up in her palaces,.... Where their kings and princes dwelt, and kept their courts, popes and cardinals; here will be the tokens of God's curse, as thorns are, these being the people of his curse, as in Isaiah 34:5:

nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; alluding to "Bozrah" which signifies a fortress; referring to the towers and fortifications of the city of Rome, and all other fortified cities within its jurisdiction:

and it shall be a habitation of dragons; literally, as it figuratively had been the seat of the old dragon, the devil, and of the beast to whom the dragon gave his power, seat, and authority; and who, though he looked like a lamb, spoke like a dragon, Revelation 12:3:

[and] a court for owls; or, "daughters of the owl"; or "ostriches", as some render it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And thorns ... - (see the note at Isaiah 5:6)

It shall be an habitation of dragons - On the meaning of the word ‘dragons,’ see the note at Isaiah 13:22.

Court for owls - A place of resort, a residence of owls. The word rendered ‘court’ (חציר châtsı̂yr) means a dwelling-place, a habitation, as well as an enclosure or court. The margin is, ‘Daughters of the owl,’ or ‘ostriches’ (see the note at Isaiah 13:21). ‘I would,’ says Stephens, when standing amidst the ruins of Petra, the capital of Idumea (see the note at Isaiah 16:1), and with this passage of Isaiah in his eye, ‘I would that the sceptic could stand as I did, among the ruins of this city among the rocks, and there open the sacred book, and read the words of the inspired penman, written when this desolate place was one of the greatest cities in the world. I see the scoff arrested, his cheek pale, his lip quivering, and his heart quaking with fear, as the ancient city cries out to him in a voice loud and powerful as one risen from the dead; though be would not believe Moses and the prophets, he believes the hand-writing of God himself, in the desolation and eternal ruin around him.’ (Incidents of Travel in Egypt, etc., vol. ii. p. 76.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 34:13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces — ועלו בארמנותיה vealu bearmenotheyha; so read all the ancient versions.

A court for owls. — יענה yaanah, the ostrich, from ענה anah, to cry, because of the noise it makes. "They roar," says Dr. Shaw, "sometimes like a lion-sometimes like a bull. I have often heard them groan as if in the utmost distress."