8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord,and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 Its streams shall be turned into pitch,and its dust into brimstone,and its land shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night or day;its smoke shall go up forever.From generation to generation it shall lie waste;no one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the hedgehog shall possess it,the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it.And He shall stretch out on itthe line of desolation,and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but no one shall be there,and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 Thorns shall come up in her palaces,nettles and brambles in the fortresses;and it shall be a habitation of jackalsand a home for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wolves,and the wild goat shall cry to its kind;the screech owl also shall rest thereand find for herself a place of rest.