Yesaya 15:3

15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;

on their roofs and in their town squares

all of them wail,

they fall down weeping.

Yesaya 34:9

34:9 Edom’s ¹  streams will be turned into pitch

and her soil into brimstone;

her land will become burning pitch.

Yesaya 34:13

34:13 Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns;

thickets and weeds will grow ²  in her fortified cities.

Jackals will settle there;

ostriches will live there. ³ 

[34:9]  ¹ tn Heb “her”; the referent (Edom) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:13]  ² tn The words “will grow” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:13]  ³ tc Heb “and she will be a settlement for wild dogs, a dwelling place for ostriches.” The translation assumes an emendation of חָצִיר (khatsir, “grass”) to חָצֵר (khatser, “settlement”). One of the Qumran scrolls of Isaiah (1QIsa^a) supports this emendation (cf. HALOT 344 s.v. II חָצִיר)