³⁷ Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt^(A) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,^(B)
    a place where no one lives.^(C)

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.
²² Hyenas^(E) will inhabit her strongholds,^(F)
    jackals^(G) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,^(H)
    and her days will not be prolonged.^(I)