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

¹² The birds of the sky^(A) nest by the waters;
    they sing among the branches.^(B)

⁴ Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest^(A) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”^(B)
declares the Lord.^(C)

⁶ All the birds of the sky
    nested in its boughs,
all the animals of the wild
    gave birth^(A) under its branches;
all the great nations
    lived in its shade.^(B)

²³ You who live in ‘Lebanon,^[a](A)’
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain^(B) like that of a woman in labor!

⁷ 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.