⁵ Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

⁹ Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, And strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"

¹ "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

² Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

³ They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.

⁴ Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.