Isaiah 34:11-13

New International Reader's Version

¹¹ The desert owl and screech owl will make it their home.
    The great owl and the raven will build their nests there.
God will use his measuring line
    to show how completely Edom will be destroyed.
He will use his plumb line
    to show how empty Edom will become.
¹² Edom’s nobles won’t have anything left there
    that can be called a kingdom.
    All its princes will vanish.
¹³ Thorns will cover its forts.
    Bushes and weeds will cover its safest places.
It will become a home for wild dogs.
    It will become a place where owls live.