Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

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

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.