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Isaiah 34:14

wild beasts the desert … wild beasts of the island … satyr See on ch. Isaiah 13:21 f.

the shrich owl The Hebr. is Lîlîth, a fem. formation from Iáil"night." Render with Cheyne: the night-hag. Lilith appears to be a creation of the Babylonian demonology. "This Lilith plays a great part in the Talmudic demonology; the cabalistic Rabbis forged a whole legend in which this spirit is said to have taken a feminine form to deceive Adam, and to have united herself to him." (Lenormant, Chaldæan Magic, Engl. Tr. p. 38.) She is mentioned in the Bible only here.

find for herself a place of rest On the restlessness of evil spirits, cf. Matthew 12:43, "walketh through dry places, seeking rest."

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See also Isaiah 34:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 34:14. _THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT_] ציים _tsiyim_, the _mountain cats_. - Bochart. _WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND_] איים _aiyim_, the _jackals_. _THE SATYR_] שעיר _seir_, the _hairy one...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Addressed to the world: Jews and Gentiles involved (Isaiah 34:1)_ 2. _The shaking of the earth and the heavens (Isaiah 34:2)_ 3. _The day of vengeance (Isaiah 34:9)_...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Edom is near to the Dead Sea, and the country is volcanic, and these facts suggest this lurid picture of judgment. Edom's rivers will be turned to pitch, its dust to brimstone, the land shall be a smo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SCREECH OWL. Hebrew. _Lilith._ Used to-day of any being of the night, as the English "bogy" is used. Charms are used against it to-day in Palestine. A PLACE, &C.. a roost....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE STREAMS THEREOF, &C.— The prophet, whose copiousness of speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen figures, an image of the land and city desolated by war, wasted by fire,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. SHAMBLES TEXT: Isaiah 34:8-17 8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:14 lilith (g-23) Or 'night-spectre.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WILD.. ISLANDS] RV 'wolves' (Isaiah 13:22). SATYR] see on Isaiah 13:21. SCREECH OWL] Heb. _Lilith,_ the name of a night-demon or vampire RV'night-monster.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 34 GOD WILL PUNISH HIS ENEMIES v1 Come, all you nations! Gather here and listen. Let...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah names many animals and birds in the original language of these verses (and also in verse 11). But to identify animals and birds in the Bible with modern names is a very uncertain task! • The a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT... — Better, _wild cats_ or _hyenas shall meet wolves._ The nouns that follow belong, apparently, to the region of mythical zoology. The English “satyr” expresses fairly...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ פָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת ־אִיִּ֔ים וְ שָׂעִ֖

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Isaiah 34:1-17 This chapter is one prolonged description of the judgments which were to befall the nations at the hand of Assyria and Babylon. The imagery employed is borrowed f...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This and the following chapter constitute the second part of the final circle of the prophecies of judgment. Terrible indeed is the description of world-wide desolation which this chapter presents. Th...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The wild beasts of the desert shall also (n) meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Monsters. Literally, "Ass-centaurs." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "fishermen shall find islands," chap. xiii. 21. --- Ones. Goats. --- Lamia. Hebrew lilith. Chaldean, "owl," the bird of Minerva, or the Moon,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read these scriptures through the medium of the gospel, and drop the similitudes in the realities, we shall find an exact description of the human heart, void of grace; and the dreadful conditio...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._And the wild beasts shall meet with the satyrs. _(20) These animals are thought by some commentators to mean fauns, by others screechowls or goblins, and by others satyrs; and it is not fully agre...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. V...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the streams thereof_ The rivers, which seem most secure from the judgment here threatened; _shall be turned into pitch_, &c. The country shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even utter...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, the marten rivaling the jackal in his attempts to find food, AND THE SATYR, spirit of the desert, SHALL CRY TO HIS FEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BEASTS: _ Heb._ Ziym WILD BEASTS: _ Heb._ Iiym SHRICHOWLE: Or, night monster...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-17 Those who aim to ruin the church, can never do that, but will ruin themselves. What dismal changes sin can make! It turns a fruitful land into barrenness, a crowded city into a wilderness. Let u...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE SATYR SHALL CRY TO HIS FELLOW: SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:21". SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:22". THE SCREECH OWL ALSO SHALL REST THERE, because there shall be no men left to disturb or affright them, ISAI...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 34:14 desert H6728 meet H6298 (H8804) jackals H338 goat H8163 bleat H7121 (H8799) companion H7453 creature...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ALL-EMBRACING NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT AND ITS PERMANENCE (ISAIAH 34:9). It is important to note that God's judgment on Edom will be all-embracing and permanent. Nothing will survive it. It is an i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Day of the Lord and Armaggedon. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There is a day fixed in the divine counsels for the deliverance of God's people and cause in the earth and the d...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 34:1. _Come near ye nations to hear for the indignation of the Lord is upon all_ the kingdoms of western Asia. Those nations are named in Jeremiah 25. They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre, Edom...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Come near, ye nations, to hear._ --The subject is, as in chap. 13., the Lord’s judgment upon all the nations; and as chap 13. singled out Babylon for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom. ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Come near, ye nations, to hear; hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation (Isaiah 34:1-2) A term that is us...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22...

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