Holy Scripture
Isaiah 34:11
A church father on this verse
“(Verses 8 and following) For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of retribution in the judgment of Zion. Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its soil into sulfur; its land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generatio…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
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In context
9And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
10and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
— Isaiah 34:11 —
12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
13And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches.