I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

我如同旷野的鹈鹕；我好像荒场的鸮鸟。

我如同旷野的鹈鹕，好像荒地的猫头鹰。

我如同旷野的鹈鹕，好像荒地的猫头鹰。

我就像旷野中的鸮鸟，又像废墟中的猫头鹰。

我像旷野的鹈鹕，又像废墟里的猫头鹰。

我像是旷野中的鹈鹕，又像废墟中的猫头鹰；

我如同曠野的鵜鶘；我好像荒場的鴞鳥。

我如同曠野的鵜鶘，好像荒地的貓頭鷹。

我如同曠野的鵜鶘，好像荒地的貓頭鷹。

我就像曠野中的鴞鳥，又像廢墟中的貓頭鷹。

我像曠野的鵜鶘，又像廢墟裡的貓頭鷹。

我好比曠野的叫梟，我如同荒場的鴟鴞。

我像是曠野中的鵜鶘，又像廢墟中的貓頭鷹；

我如曠野之鵜鶘、荒墟之鴟鴞兮、

余若鵜鶘、居彼曠野、余若鸕鶿、止於野水兮、

我如曠野之鵜鶘、又如荒墟之鴟鴞、

形容消瘦盡。長噓更短歎。

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

I’m like a desert owl. I’m like an owl among destroyed buildings.

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far off wilderness.

I am like an eagle owl, like a little owl among the ruins.

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”