¹⁷ If a bird sees a trap being set,
    it knows to stay away.

²³     awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
    little knowing it would cost him his life.

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.

¹¹ Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
    and wiser than the birds of the sky?’