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“Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.
    Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

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Even an ox knows its owner,
    and a donkey recognizes its master’s care—
but Israel doesn’t know its master.
    My people don’t recognize my care for them.”

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Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.
    Learn from their ways and become wise!

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 The identification of some of these birds is uncertain.

29 But ask those who have been around,
    and they will tell you the truth.
30 Evil people are spared in times of calamity
    and are allowed to escape disaster.

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