¹³ Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

⁷ Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

⁹ And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.

¹⁹ The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.

²² For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

²¹ For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

²⁹ I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

¹⁷ Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.