10. It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it for ever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
11. Owls and ravens will take over the land. The Lord will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
12. There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
13. Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
14. Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
15. Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
16. Search in the Lord's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The Lord has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together.