22 [a]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious (A)palaces.
Her fateful time also [b]will soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:22 Or howling creatures
  2. Isaiah 13:22 Lit is near to come

22 Hyenas(A) will inhabit her strongholds,(B)
    jackals(C) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(D)
    and her days will not be prolonged.(E)

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22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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For You have turned a city into a (A)heap,
A (B)fortified city into a ruin;
A (C)palace of strangers is no longer a city,
It will never be rebuilt.

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You have made the city a heap of rubble,(A)
    the fortified(B) town a ruin,(C)
the foreigners’ stronghold(D) a city no more;
    it will never be rebuilt.(E)

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For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

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13 (A)For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up;
Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the (B)jubilant city.

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13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(A)
yes, mourn(B) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(C)

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13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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