I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert.
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.
“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 he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Baḇ
Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches.
and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.