¹⁶ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

¹⁵ And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;

¹⁶ The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;

¹⁷ And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;

¹⁸ The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

¹⁸ For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

¹⁹ Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

⁷ Have no part with such men;

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

⁹ (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

¹⁰ Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

¹⁸ Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

¹⁹ Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

²¹ But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

¹¹ 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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

² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.