The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
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Gill's Exposition
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the islands,.... In Rome, and take up their abode there; of these creatures, the first of which the Targum renders monstrous ones,…
Barnes' Notes
The wild beasts of the desert - There is in the original here a paronomasia, which cannot be conveyed in a translation. The word rendered, ‘wild beasts of the desert’ (ציים tsı̂yı̂ym), is rendered by…
This prophecy looks very black, but surely it looks so further than upon Edom and Bozrah. 1. It describes the melancholy changes that are often made by the divine Providence, in countries, cities,…
Cambridge Bible
wild beasts the desert … wild beasts of the island … satyr See on ch. Isa 13:21 f.
the shrich owl The Hebr. is Lîlîth, a fem. formation from Iáil"night." Render with Cheyne: the night-hag. Lilith…