Bible Verses About The Owl

"'The following creatures of the air are to be detestable for you - they are not to be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

the ostrich, the screech-owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawks,

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

little owls, great owls, horned owls,

I am like a great owl in the desert, I've become like an owl in the ruins.

But wildcats will lie there, their houses will be full of owls, ostriches will live there, and wild goats will dance there.

Horned owl and hawk will possess it, screech owl and raven will live there; he will stretch over it the measuring line of confusion and the plumbline of the empty void.

Of its nobles, none will be called to be king, and all its princes will be nothing.

Thorns will overgrow its palaces, nettles and thistles its fortresses; it will become a lair for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

Wildcats and hyenas will meet there; and billy-goats call to each other; Lilit [the night monster] will lurk there and find herself a place to rest.

There the hoot owl will nest, lay her eggs, hatch and gather her young in its shade. There the vultures will assemble, every one with its mate.

"Therefore wildcats and jackals will live there, and ostriches will settle there. It will never again be peopled, it will be uninhabited age after age;

This is why I howl and wail, why I go barefoot and stripped, why I howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.