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Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass in the field.

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The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks[a]
    and strips the forests bare.
In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”

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Footnotes

  1. 29:9 Or causes the deer to writhe in labor.

Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up!
    The grassy banks are scorched.
The tender plants are gone;
    nothing green remains.

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The Lord’s Challenge Continues

39 “Do you know when the wild goats give birth?
    Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?
Do you know how many months they carry their young?
    Are you aware of the time of their delivery?
They crouch down to give birth to their young
    and deliver their offspring.
Their young grow up in the open fields,
    then leave home and never return.

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