I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
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.
I am like a vulture of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
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.
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.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
