Micah 1:8

WEB

⁸For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.

KJV

⁸Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

BSB

⁸Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal ^[+] and mourn like an ostrich.

FBV

⁸Because of this I will weep and wail, I will walk barefoot and naked, and will howl like jackals and mourn like owls.

Extra References

Isaiah 20:2-4

²at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot. ³The LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, ⁴so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 22:4

⁴Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:19

¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

Job 30:29

²⁹I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Psalms 102:6

⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

Jeremiah 48:36-39

³⁶Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished. ³⁷For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist. ³⁸On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says the LORD. ³⁹“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”

Isaiah 16:9

⁹Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Jeremiah 9:10

¹⁰I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

Jeremiah 4:19

¹⁹My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Isaiah 13:21

²¹But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.