I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.