I became a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ – to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert.
I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the house-top.
Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
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.
“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!
Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches.
but I have hated Ě
