I became a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches.
I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert.
but I have hated Ě
Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ – to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
“Like a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O יהוה, I am oppressed, undertake for me!
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for jackals, a courtyard for ostriches.
I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the house-top.
