Isaiah 34 - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

1 shall be turned into pitch,

and her soil into brimstone;

her land shall become burning pitch.

10Night and day it shall not be quenched;

its smoke shall go up for ever.

From generation to generation it shall lie waste;

none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

11But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it,

the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.

He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,

and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

12They shall name it No Kingdom There,

and all its princes shall be nothing.

13Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

an abode for ostriches.

14And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas,

the satyr shall cry to his fellow;

yea, there shall the night hag alight,

and find for herself a resting place.

15There shall the owl nest and lay

and hatch and gather her young in her shadow;

yea, there shall the kites be gathered,

each one with her mate.

16Seek and read from the book of the Lord:

Not one of these shall be missing;

none shall be without her mate.

For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,

and his Spirit has gathered them.

17He has cast the lot for them,

his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;

they shall possess it for ever,

from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.