Thematic Bible: Habits of
Thematic Bible
Animals » Habits of
The voice of Yahweh, causeth the gazelles to bring forth, and hath stript forests; and, in his own temple, every one there, is saying, Glory!
But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee; Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to thee:
So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.
Surely the mountains bring, produce, to him, where, all the wild beasts of the field, do play;
Thou causest darkness, and it becometh night, Therein, creepeth forth, Every wild beast of the forest; The young lions, roaring for prey, And seeking, from GOD, their food. The sun ariseth, they withdraw themselves, And, in their lairs, lay them down. read more.
Man goeth forth to his work, And to his labour, until evening. How thy works abound, O Yahweh! All of them - in wisdom, hast thou made, The earth is full of thy possession: - This sea here, is great and broad on both hands, - Wherein are creeping things, even without number, Living things, small with great;
Man goeth forth to his work, And to his labour, until evening. How thy works abound, O Yahweh! All of them - in wisdom, hast thou made, The earth is full of thy possession: - This sea here, is great and broad on both hands, - Wherein are creeping things, even without number, Living things, small with great;
Then shall lie down there, wild beasts, And filled shall be their houses with owls, - Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And shaggy creatures, shall dance there. And jackals shall answer, in their citadels, And wild dogs, in their voluptuous palaces, - And near to come is her time, And, her days, shall not be delayed.
Then shall criers meet with howlers, And, the shaggy creature, unto his fellow, shall call, - Only, there, shall, the night-spectre, Make her settlement, And find for herself a place of rest:
For, every nature - both of wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of things in the sea, is to be tamed, and hath been tamed, by the human nature;
Birds » Habits of
The wing of the Ostrich that waveth itself joyfully, Is it the pinion of lovingkindness or the plumage? For she leaveth - to the earth - her eggs, and, on the dust, she letteth them be warmed; And hath forgotten, that, a foot, may crush them, - or, the wild beast, tread on them! read more.
Dealing hardly with her young, as none-of hers, In vain, her labour, without dread. For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding. What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
Dealing hardly with her young, as none-of hers, In vain, her labour, without dread. For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding. What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south? Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest? The crag, he inhabiteth, and so lodgeth himself, on the tooth of the crag, and high fort; read more.
From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce; And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he.
From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce; And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he.
Dog » Habits of » Returns to eat his own vomit
There hath befallen them the thing spoken of in the true proverb - A dog, turning back unto his own vomit, and - A sow, as soon as washed, unto wallowing in mire.
As, a dog, returneth onto his own vomit, a dullard, repeateth his folly.
Dog » Habits of » Licking blood
And, when the chariot was washed out at the pool of Samaria, the dogs lapped up his blood, also, the harlots, bathed there , - according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken.
Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying - Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou committed murder, and also taken possession? Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying: Thus, saith Yahweh, In the place where the dogs have lapped up the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lap up thy blood, even thine.
Dog » Habits of » Licking sores
and to long to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man: nay! even, the dogs, used to come and lick his sores.
Dog » Habits of » Lapping of
So he took down the people unto the waters, - and Yahweh said unto Gideon - Every one that lappeth with his tongue of the water, as a dog lappeth, thou shalt set him by himself, likewise, every one that boweth down upon his knees, to drink.