Isaiah 34:11
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Berean Study Bible
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

Young's Literal Translation
And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

King James Bible
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Hebrew
The desert owl
קָאַ֣ת (qā·’aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6893: (a bird) perhaps pelican

and screech owl
וְקִפּ֔וֹד (wə·qip·pō·wḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7090: A species of bird, the bittern

will possess it,
וִירֵשׁ֙וּהָ֙ (wî·rê·šū·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

and the great owl
וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף (wə·yan·šō·wp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3244: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl

and raven
וְעֹרֵ֖ב (wə·‘ō·rêḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6158: A raven

will dwell
יִשְׁכְּנוּ־ (yiš·kə·nū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

in it.
בָ֑הּ (ḇāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

The LORD will stretch out
וְנָטָ֥ה (wə·nā·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

over [Edom]
עָלֶ֛יהָ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

a measuring line
קַֽו־ (qaw-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6957: A cord, for, measuring, a rule, a rim, a musical string, accord

of chaos
תֹ֖הוּ (ṯō·hū)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8414: A desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain

and a plumb line
וְאַבְנֵי־ (wə·’aḇ·nê-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 68: A stone

of destruction.
בֹֽהוּ׃ (ḇō·hū)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 922: A vacuity, an undistinguishable ruin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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