Thematic Bible: Instincts of
Thematic Bible
Animals » Instincts of
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
“As an eagle that protects its nest,
That flutters over its young,
He spread out His wings and took them,
He carried them on His pinions.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise! -- " Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, Provides her food in the summer and gathers her supplies in the harvest.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they lay up their food in the summer; The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks; The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands; read more.
The lizard you can seize with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
The lizard you can seize with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
“Even the stork in the sky
Knows her seasons [of migration],
And the turtledove, the swallow and the crane
Observe the time of their return.
But My people do not know
The law of the Lord.