Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 34:11

11. 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 .

The Inhabitants shall be wholly cut off, and it shall be intirely possessed by those Creatures which delight in Deserts, and wast Places. See the same or like Expressions in the like case, Isa. 13. 21, 22. & 14. 23.

He shall use the Line, or the Stone or Plummet joyned to it, not to build them, but to mark them out to Desolation and Destruction, as work-men commonly use them, to mark what they are to pull down.

Marginal references: Zeph. 2. 14. Rev. 18. 2.; Or, pelican.; Zech. 3. 9. [illegible: 1+ letters] 4. 10.