Thematic Bible: Instincts of


Thematic Bible



They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer; rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags; locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks; read more.
a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.



Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,


locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;


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