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.
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;
And thorns, nettles and thistles shall go up in her palaces, in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches.
The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The Lillich shall also settle there, and find a resting place for herself.
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of waters, in the home of jackals, in its resting place, and a place for the reed and rush.
The beast of the field shall honor Me, jackals and daughters of ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My elect.
For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, it is time to tread her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest will come.
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.
For the vision is still for the appointed time, but it breathes to the end, and it does not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, because coming it will come; it will not tarry.
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.
Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them.