I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert.
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
“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 the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,
Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches.
And droves shall lie down in her midst, every beast of the nation, both pelican and bittern lodge in the tops of her columns, a voice singing at the window, ruin be at the threshold, for the cedar work is exposed.
And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Baḇ