²¹ But ^(A)wild animals will lie down there,
    and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^(B)ostriches^[a] will dwell,
    and there wild goats will dance.

^14 (A)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
    the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird^[a] settles
    and finds for herself a resting-place.

³⁷ and Babylon shall become ^(A)a heap of ruins,
    ^(B)the haunt of jackals,
^(C)a horror ^(D)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

^14 (A)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
    all kinds of beasts;^[a]
(B)even the owl and the hedgehog^[b]
    shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
    devastation will be on the threshold;
    for ^(C)her cedar work will be laid bare.
¹⁵ This is the exultant city
    ^(D)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    ^(E)a lair for wild beasts!
^(F)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and ^(G)shakes his fist.