Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
cormorant—The Hebrew is rendered, in Psalms 102:6, "pelican," which is a seafowl, and cannot be meant here: some waterfowl (katta, according to BURCKHARDT) that tenants desert places is intended.
bittern—rather, "the hedgehog," or "porcupine" [GESENIUS] (Isaiah 14:23).
owl—from its being enumerated among water birds in Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16. MAURER thinks rather the heron or crane is meant; from a Hebrew root, "to blow," as it utters a sound like the blowing of a horn (Revelation 18:2).
confusion—devastation.
line . . . stones—metaphor from an architect with line and plummet-stone (see on Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 28:17); God will render to it the exact measure of justice without mercy (James 2:13; II Kings 21:13; Lamentations 2:8; Amos 7:7-8).
emptiness—desolation. Edom is now a waste of "stones."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 34:11:
Genesis 1:2
Leviticus 11:17
2 Kings 21:13
Isaiah 18:2
Jeremiah 4:23
Lamentations 2:8
Ezekiel 32:29
Amos 7:8
Zephaniah 2:14
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