¹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

² Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

¹⁸ The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

⁵ The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

⁵ And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.