I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
I am like a vulture of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of jackals, and a court for ostriches.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
