13  Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

an abode for ostriches.¹

7  the burning sand shall become a pool,

and the thirsty ground springs of water;

in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down,

the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

37  and Babylon shall become a ^gheap of ruins,

the haunt of ^hjackals,

a horror and a hissing,

without inhabitant.