The land by the sea will become pastures
    having wells for shepherds
    and pens for flocks.(A)

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14 Flocks and herds(A) will lie down there,
    creatures of every kind.
The desert owl(B) and the screech owl(C)
    will roost on her columns.
Their hooting will echo through the windows,
    rubble will fill the doorways,
    the beams of cedar will be exposed.
15 This is the city of revelry(D)
    that lived in safety.(E)
She said to herself,
    “I am the one! And there is none besides me.”(F)
What a ruin she has become,
    a lair for wild beasts!(G)
All who pass by her scoff(H)
    and shake their fists.(I)

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I will turn Rabbah(A) into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep.(B) Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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The cities of Aroer(A) will be deserted
    and left to flocks,(B) which will lie down,(C)
    with no one to make them afraid.(D)

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17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(A)
    lambs will feed[a] among the ruins of the rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat

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