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

¹² The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

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

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.

²³ O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

⁶ In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

²¹ Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

⁴ Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.