Leviticus 11:16

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Leviticus 11:16

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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the ostrich,
the short-eared owl, the gull,
any kind of hawk,

I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.

But desert creatures will lie down there,
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.

The desert owl and the screech owl will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens,

the spirit now working in the disobedient.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

Therefore, do not become their partners.

For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

He cried in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,
Babylon the Great has fallen!
She has become a dwelling for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.