LEB(i)
8 For ⌊Yahweh has a day of vengeance⌋,* a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
9 And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her.
11 But* the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds* and thistle plants* in her fortresses; and it shall be the settlement of jackals, green grass for the daughters of an ostrich.
14 And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there Lilith* shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself.
15 There the owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered, each one with her mate.
16 Seek from the book of Yahweh and ⌊read⌋;*
none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my* mouth ⌊is the one that⌋* has commanded, and his spirit ⌊is the one that⌋* has gathered them. 17 And he ⌊is the one that⌋* has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it ⌊from generation to generation⌋.*
none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my* mouth ⌊is the one that⌋* has commanded, and his spirit ⌊is the one that⌋* has gathered them. 17 And he ⌊is the one that⌋* has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it ⌊from generation to generation⌋.*