Lexicon :: Strong's H8577 - tannîn

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,

And the deadly poison of vipers.

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,

That You set a guard over me?

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,

And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals

And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;

You broke the heads of the [fn]sea monsters in the waters.

You will tread upon the lion and cobra;

The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

Praise the LORD from the earth,

Sea monsters and all deeps;

[fn]Hyenas will howl in their castles,

And jackals in their luxurious palaces.

Babylon’s time has nearly come,

And her days will not be prolonged.

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent

With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],

Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,

Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;

It will be a haunt for jackals,

An abode for ostriches.

And the burning sand (mirage) will become a pool [of water]

And the thirsty ground springs of water;

In the haunt of jackals, [fn]where they lay resting,

Grass becomes reeds and [fn]rushes.

“The beasts of the field will honor Me,

Jackals and ostriches,

Because I have given waters in the wilderness

And rivers in the desert,

To give drink to My people, My chosen.

Awake, awake, put on strength and might, O arm of the LORD;

Awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of long ago.

Was it not You who cut Rahab (Egypt) in pieces,

Who pierced the dragon [of Egypt]?

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,

A haunt and dwelling place of jackals;

And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The sound of a report! Behold, [the invader] comes—

A great commotion from the country of the north (Babylonia)—

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt and dwelling place of jackals.

“And the wild donkeys stand on the barren heights;

They pant for air like jackals,

Their eyesight fails

Because there is no grass.

“Hazor will become a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,

A desolation forever;

No one will live there,

Nor will a son of man reside in it.”

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured [fn]me, he has crushed me,

He has set me down like an empty vessel.

Like a monster he has swallowed me up,

He has filled his belly with my delicacies;

He has spit me out and washed me away.

“Babylon will become a heap [of ruins], a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,

An object of horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of scorn and amazement], without inhabitants.

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,

[Boastfully] declaring, ‘My Nile is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Because of this I [Micah] must lament (mourn over with expressions of grief) and wail,

I must go barefoot and naked [without outer garments as if robbed];

I must wail like the jackals

And lament [with a loud, mournful cry] like the ostriches.