¹³ He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,^(A)
dry as the desert.
¹⁴ Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
every kind of wild animal.^[a]
Both the desert owl^[b] and the screech owl^[c]
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will sound^[d] from the window,
but devastation^[e] will be on the threshold,
for He will expose the cedar work.^[f]
15 This is the self-assured^(B) city
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers^[g] and shakes his fist.