Isaiah 13

"The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw...But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.
22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”  vv.1,21-22

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This chapter is concerning Babylon of whom was the kingdom that took Israel into captivity.  Yet shortly after the Medes and the Persians conquered Babylon and the captives of Israel went under them instead.   The land of Babylon is destroyed, plundered, and left desolate.  Babylon as a people, place, culture has never been back into existence and laid desolate until the 1800s when archeologist discovered it and began attempts at new life which we see has been stymied by wars the past centuries.  It's interesting the animals that are used to describe who will inhabit the homes and land of Babylon.  The word for "wild goats" is satyr which from books and movies today we know as half-man half-goat.  These were considered evil and demigods of other nations, rendered 'devils' as a form of idols.  Also we see the English word "jackals" which translated from the Hebrew could be better translated as 'dragons'.  No doubt the land of Babylon was to be somewhere where no man wanted to set foot.