“Hazor will be inhabited by jackals, and it will be desolate forever. No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Hazor will be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever. No man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.”
- KJV And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
- BSB “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
- NKJV “Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever; No one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.”
- NASB “Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever; No one will live there, Nor will anyone of mankind reside in it.”
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Quick answer
Hazor will become a permanent haunt of jackals, never again inhabited. The judgment leaves lasting desolation.
Overview
The picture of jackals dwelling in an empty land signals total, enduring ruin (Jeremiah 9:11). The repeated 'no man shall dwell there' formula marks complete abandonment. Such desolation testifies that opposition to God leaves no lasting legacy, while only His kingdom endures forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Jer 10:22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
- Jer 51:37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- Jer 9:11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Isa 13:20–22It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
- Zeph 2:13–15He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Mal 1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
- Rev 18:2He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
- Jer 49:17–18“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Jer 50:39–40Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein; and it will be inhabited no more forever; neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
- Rev 18:21–22A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
- Isa 34:9–17Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
- Isa 14:23“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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