‘These you shall detest among the birds; they are not to be eaten, for they are hated things: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black buzzard,

“Now a word was secretly brought to me,
And my ear received a whisper of it.

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

All who hate me whisper together about me;
Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,

He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They managed only a prayerful whisper
When Your discipline was upon them.

Then you [Jerusalem] will be brought low,
You will speak from the earth,
And from the dust where you lie face down
Your muffled words will come.
Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the earth [like one produced by a medium],
And your speech will whisper and squeak from the dust.