Zephaniah 2:13-15

Lexham English Bible

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
    and he will destroy Assyria
and will make Nineveh a desolation,
    a dry wasteland like the desert.
¹⁴ Herds shall lie down in her midst,
    every wild animal of a nation;
even the desert owl and the screech owl
    shall lodge on her capitals.
A voice shall hoot in the window;
    rubble^[a] on the threshold;
for the cedar is laid bare.
¹⁵ This is the city of rejoicing
    that lived securely;
the one saying in her heart,
    “I am, and there is none besides me.”^[b]
How she has become a desolation,
    a lair for wild animals!
Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.