The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Monsters. Lit. “Ass-centaurs.” Bible.—Hebrew “fishermen shall find islands.” Calmet. 13:21.—Ones. Goats.—Lamia. Hebrew lilith. Chal. “owl,” the bird of Minerva, or the Moon, which the Arabs style Alilat. Calmet.—Dicodorus (20) relates that Lamia was an African queen, who having last her children, was changed into a beast, and destroyed all the children she could catch; and the Jews deal still more in fables, ( Calmet.) asserting that Lilith was the first wife of Adam, and so forth Buxtorf. Syn. 2.
literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster