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

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

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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

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

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

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