13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
    but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! (A)The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

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Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and (A)the turtledove, (B)swallow, and crane[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
(C)but my people know not
    the rules[b] of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees

17 In them the birds build their nests;
    the stork has her home in the fir trees.

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29 I am a brother of (A)jackals
    and a companion of (B)ostriches.

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21 For the king's ships went to (A)Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Or baboons

22 For the king had (A)a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:22 Or baboons

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

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