²¹ But desert creatures^(A) will lie there,
    jackals^(B) will fill her houses;
there the owls^(C) will dwell,
    and there the wild goats^(D) will leap about.

¹³ Look at the land of the Babylonians,^[a](A)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians^(B) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;^(C)
they raised up their siege towers,^(D)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.^(E)

¹⁴ Desert creatures^(A) will meet with hyenas,^(B)
    and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures^(C) will also lie down
    and find for themselves places of rest.

³⁹ “So desert creatures^(A) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.^(B)