21 But qwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ostriches1 will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas2 will cry in its towers,
and jackals in the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
23 “And I will make it ca possession of the hedgehog,1 and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;1 Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
37 and Babylon shall become a gheap of ruins,
the haunt of hjackals,
a horror and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
w“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
xa haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
