<p class="poetry">Babylon will become a heap of ruins.p> <p class="poetry">Jackals will make their home there.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,p> <p class="poetry">a place where no one lives.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will make Jerusalem<n id="2" /> a heap of ruins.p> <p class="poetry">Jackals will make their home there.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy the towns of Judahp> <p class="poetry">so that no one will be able to live in them.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Listen! News is coming even now.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The rumble of a great army is heard approaching<n id="2" /> from a land in the north.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,p> <p class="poetry">places where only jackals live.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,p> <p class="poetry">a place where only jackals live.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one will live there.p> <p class="poetry">No human being will settle in it.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>