See how you translated this in [Isaiah 13:21](../13/21.md).
## raven ##
a black bird
## He will stretch over it the measuring line of ruin and the plumbline of destruction ##
This compares God carefully judging the people of Edom to a builder carefully using tools to measure something. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
## measuring line...plumbline ##
See how you tranlated similar words in [Isaiah 28:17](../28/17.md).