13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
    though they cannot compare
    with the wings and feathers of the stork.(A)

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13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

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Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork,(A) and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

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Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know(A)
    the requirements of the Lord.

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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

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17 There the birds(A) make their nests;
    the stork has its home in the junipers.

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17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

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29 I have become a brother of jackals,(A)
    a companion of owls.(B)

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29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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21 The king had a fleet of trading ships[a] manned by Hiram’s[b] servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Hebrew of ships that could go to Tarshish
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram

21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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22 The king had a fleet of trading ships[a](A) at sea along with the ships(B) of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:22 Hebrew of ships of Tarshish

22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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19 the stork,(A) any kind(B) of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.(C)

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19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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