Isaiah 13:20-22

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²⁰She 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.
²¹But 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.
²²Hyenas^(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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Ezekiel 29:11

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¹¹The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.^(A)

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Ezekiel 29:11 in all English translations

Malachi 1:3-4

New International Version

³but Esau I have hated,^(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland^(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.^(C)”

⁴Edom^(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild^(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.^(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.^(G)

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