Isaiah 43:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons - image of idolaters, defiled with blood and pollutions, dwelling like dragons, etc., in the wastes of Gentile ignorance: even they shall be converted. Or else, literally, such copious floods of water shall be given by God in the desert that the very beasts shall (in poetic language) praise the Lord (Psalms 148:10) (Jerome).

Dragons (Hebrew, tannim) - serpents: or else jackals (from tan; not taniyn (H8565)) (note, Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 34:13).

Owls - rather, ostriches, as margin ( bªnowt (H1323) ya`ªnaah (H3284).)

Isaiah 43:20

20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls:d because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.