Thematic Bible: Habits of
Thematic Bible
Animals » Habits of
The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: Glory!
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Ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you. Speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you.
Then the beast goes into its lair. It remains in its den.
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The hills bring him their produce. All the wild animals play nearby.
You appoint darkness and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. They withdraw at sunrise and lie down in their dens. read more.
Man goes to his work and to his labor until evening. O Jehovah, how many are your works! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions. The sea is so big and wide with many creatures, living things both large and small.
Man goes to his work and to his labor until evening. O Jehovah, how many are your works! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions. The sea is so big and wide with many creatures, living things both large and small.
But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there. Wild beasts will howl in her fortified towers and jackals in her luxurious temples. Her time also will soon come and her days will not be prolonged.
Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves.
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Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
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Birds » Habits of
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. She is unaware that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. read more.
She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned. This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned. This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high? It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag. read more.
It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away. Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.
It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away. Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.
Dog » Habits of » Returns to eat his own vomit
It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
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As a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his folly.
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Dog » Habits of » Licking blood
The chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria the bathing-place of the loose women. Dogs were drinking his blood there, as Jehovah said.
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Say to him: 'Jehovah says: Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?' Then say: 'Jehovah says: Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.'
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Dog » Habits of » Licking sores
He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.
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Dog » Habits of » Lapping of
Gideon took the men to the water. Jehovah told him: Separate everyone who laps up the water with his tongue like a dog, from everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.
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