But the desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and daughters of ostriches shall dwell there; and he-goats shall skip there.
Also I will make it a possession of a shrinking animal and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.
Behold, the land of the Chaldeans! This people did not exist! Assyria founded it for desert-creaturess. They set up their siege towers; they lay bare its palaces; they set it up to be a ruin.
for the palace is left alone; the crowd of the city is forsaken; mound and tower are instead caves, until forever; a joy of wild asses; pasture for flocks;
So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals. And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again. And it shall not be lived in again forever; not be lived in until generation and generation.
On account of this I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackal, yea, mourn like the daughters of the ostrich.
And flocks shall lie down in her midst; every beast of a nation; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the capitals of its pillar. A voice shall sing at the window; ruin shall be at the doorsill; for He will bare the cedar work.
And he cried in a strong, great voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen! It has fallen, and it has become a dwelling place of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean bird, and hated,