I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters.

I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.

It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins.

The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over."

My voice was thin and weak, And I moaned like a dove. My eyes grew tired from looking to heaven. LORD, rescue me from all this trouble.

Then Micah said, "Because of this I will mourn and lament. To show my sorrow, I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and wail like an ostrich.

and have hated Esau and his descendants. I have devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned the land to jackals."