In the biblical accounts, owls are often associated with desolation and wilderness. The book of Isaiah describes them as inhabiting ruined cities, as seen in Isaiah 34:11 and 34:14, where they are mentioned alongside other creatures that dwell in deserted places. The Psalms also reference owls, with Psalms 102:6 likening the psalmist to a lone owl, emphasizing a sense of isolation. Additionally, Leviticus 11:17 and Isaiah 34:15 include owls in lists of unclean birds, further underscoring their connection to the wild and uninhabited areas.
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The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.