¹³ “The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,
    but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.

⁷ Even the stork that flies across the sky
    knows the time of her migration,
as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane.^[a]
    They all return at the proper time each year.
But not my people!
    They do not know the Lord’s laws.

¹⁷ There the birds make their nests,
    and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.

²⁹ Instead, I am considered a brother to jackals
    and a companion to owls.