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

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Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.

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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.

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

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

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21 The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish manned by the sailors sent by Hiram.[a] Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:21a Hebrew Huram, a variant spelling of Hiram.
  2. 9:21b Or and baboons.

22 The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish that sailed with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:22 Or and baboons.

19 the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.

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