13 He will also stretch out his hand against the north

and destroy Assyria;

he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,t

dry as the desert.

14 Herds will lie down in the middle of it,

every kind of wild animal.C

Both eagle owlsD and heronsE

will roost in the capitals of its pillars.

Their calls will soundF from the window,

but devastationG will be on the threshold,

for he will expose the cedar work.H

15 This is the jubilantu city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffsI and shakes his fist.