Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The cormorant - kaath , the pelican, from the root ki , to vomit, because it is said she swallows shell-fish, and when the heat of her stomach has killed the fish, she vomits the shells, takes out the dead fish, and eats them.
The bittern - kippod , the hedge-hog, or porcupine.
The owl - yanshoph , the bittern, from nashaph , to blow, because of the blowing noise it makes, almost like the lowing of an ox. My old MS. Bible renders the words thus: - The foule in face like an asse, and the yrchoun, and the snyte (snipe.)
The line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness "The plummet of emptiness over her scorched plains" - The word choreyha , joined to the 12th verse, embarrasses it, and makes it inexplicable. At least I do not know that any one has yet made out the construction, or given any tolerable explication of it. I join it to the 11th verse, and supply a letter or two, which seem to have been lost. Fifteen MSS. five ancient, and two editions, read choreyha ; the first printed edition of 1486, I think nearer to the truth, chor choreyha . I read becharereyha , or al chorereyha ; see Jeremiah 17:6. A MS. has chodiah , and the Syriac reads chaduah , gaudium , joining it to the two preceding words; which he likewise reads differently, but without improving the sense. However, his authority is clear for dividing the verses as they are here divided. I read shem , as a noun. They shall boast, yikreu ; see Proverbs 20:6.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 34:11:
Zephaniah 2:14
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