Reference: Raven
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An 'unclean' bird (Le 11:15; De 14:14), numbers of which may always be seen gathered, together with the dogs, around the carrion thrown out into the valley of Hinnom (cf. Pr 30:17). Its glossy plumage is referred to in Song 5:11; it often dwells in the wilderness (Isa 34:11), and yet God cares for and watches over it (Job 38:41; Ps 147:8; Lu 12:24). The name '
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Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, - when his young ones - unto GOD - cry out, when they wander for lack of food?
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.
His head, is pure gold, - his locks, are bushy, black as a raven;
That the vomiting pelican and the bittern may possess it: And the great owl and the raven, dwell therein; Then will he stretch out over it The line of desolation, and The plummet of emptiness.
Consider well the ravens - That they sow nor, neither do they reap, which have neither chamber nor barn, - and, God, feedeth, them! By how much do, ye, excel, the birds?