²⁴ Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?

⁹ He provides food for the cattle, And for the young ravens when they call.

³¹ Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

⁷ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

¹⁶ You open your hand, And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹ Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

² The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

³ Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

⁴ It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.

⁵ So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

⁶ The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

¹¹ Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

²⁶ The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.

³⁰ For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

³¹ But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

³² Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.