I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
