Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein. It will be inhabited no more forever, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 39. Fig-fauns. Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes; such as the ancients called fauns and satyrs: and as they imagined them to live upon wild figs, they called them fauni-ficarii, or fig-fauns. Challoner.—Maldonat reads sicariis, “ruffians.” Sixtus V. and S. Jerom, (in Isaiah 13:21) have fatuis, “foolish wild men.” Hebrew “the Tsiim iwth the iim shall dwell there, and the daughters of the Yahana ( Bible. swans) shall there reside,” or “fishermen among the rushes shall dwell,” and so forth—Ever. Its situation is unknown. There is still a town of the same name, but not in the same place.