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 desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
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 chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance. Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
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