Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, said the LORD of hosts. Torrey's Topical Textbook
Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ... ... thereof; and whoever lacks either of these is spiritually unclean. ...Birds of the raven kind signify those who are ... The bittern is a bird of the East: it has a ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm
Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses. ... Then there shall no more be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord: no lion shall be there; the unclean shall no more tread in the paths of God's people, but the ... /.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/of antichrist and his ruin .htm