^{9 Ref} And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

^{10 Ref} It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.

^{11 Ref} But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.

^{12 Ref} The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

^{13 Ref} And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

^{14 Ref} And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.

^{15 Ref} The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.