20. No one will ever live there again. No wandering Arab will ever pitch his tent there, and no shepherd will ever pasture his flock there.
21. It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins.
22. The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over.”