Yesaya 13:21
Konteks13:21 Wild animals will rest there,
the ruined 1 houses will be full of hyenas. 2
Ostriches will live there,
wild goats will skip among the ruins. 3
Yesaya 57:5
Konteks57:5 you who practice ritual sex 4 under the oaks and every green tree,
who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 5
[13:21] 1 tn The word “ruined” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
[13:21] 2 tn The precise referent of this word in uncertain. See HALOT 29 s.v. *אֹחַ. Various English versions translate as “owls” (e.g., NAB, NASB), “wild dogs” (NCV); “jackals” (NIV); “howling creatures” (NRSV, NLT).
[13:21] 3 tn Heb “will skip there.”
[57:5] 4 tn Heb “inflame yourselves”; NRSV “burn with lust.” This verse alludes to the practice of ritual sex that accompanied pagan fertility rites.
[57:5] 5 sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).