"I have becomea brotherto jackalsAnd a companionof ostriches.
If I callto the pit,'You are my father;To the worm,'my motherand my sister';
I resemblea pelicanof the wilderness;I have becomelike an owlof the wasteplaces.
I lieawake,I have becomelike a lonelybirdon a housetop.
YetYou have crushedus in a placeof jackalsAnd coveredus with the shadowof death.
Thornswill comeup in its fortifiedtowers,Nettlesand thistlesin its fortifiedcities;It will also be a hauntof jackals[And] an abodeof ostriches.
"Like a swallow,[like] a crane,soI twitter;I moanlike a dove;My eyeslookwistfullyto the heights;O Lord,I am oppressed,be my security.
Becauseof thisI must lamentand wail,I must gobarefootand naked;I must makea lamentlike the jackalsAnd a mourninglike the ostriches.
but I have hatedEsau,and I have madehis mountainsa desolationand [appointed] his inheritancefor the jackalsof the wilderness."
