These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, ¹  the vulture, ²  the black vulture, ³ 

the white owl, the scops owl, the osprey,

the jackdaw, ¹  the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

“‘These you are to detest from among the birds – they must not be eaten, because they are detestable: ¹  the griffon vulture, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

the kite, the buzzard of any kind, ¹ 

the kite, the black kite, the dayyah ¹  after its species,

Sound the alarm! ¹  An eagle ²  looms over the temple of the Lord! For they have broken their covenant with me, ³  and have rebelled against my law.

a hidden path ¹  no bird of prey knows – no falcon’s ²  eye has spotted it.

I am like an owl ¹  in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl ²  among the ruins. ³ 

The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. ¹  But other birds of prey are all around them. ²  Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. ³ 

Their horses are faster than leopards and more alert ¹  than wolves in the desert. ²  Their horses ³  gallop, ⁴  their horses come a great distance; like a vulture ⁵  they swoop down quickly to devour their prey. ⁶ 

Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; ¹  shave your foreheads as bald ²  as an eagle, ³  for they are taken from you into exile.