²⁹ I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

⁸ For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

⁶ I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

²¹ But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.

²² And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

¹⁴ I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

³ And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.