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Isaiah 34 describes a cursed wasteland, with the Hebrew referencing wild birds and animals. The Greek Septuagint inserts fantastical and mythological birds and also adds a reference to a “donkey centaur” which may also be translated as “goat demon.”
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Isaiah 34:11

Hebrew Bible
10 Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland, and no one will ever pass through it again. 11 Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The Lord will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction. 12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom, and all her officials will disappear.
Date: 740–450 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)

LXX Isaiah 34:11

Septuagint
10 night and day; and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations, and for a long time; 11 and birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and donkey-centaurs shall dwell in it. 12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her princes and her great men shall be destroyed.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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