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

¹² By the streams^[a] the birds of the air have their habitation;
    they sing among the branches.^(A)

⁴ Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
            says the Lord.^(A)

⁶ All the birds of the air
    made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the animals of the field
    gave birth to their young,
and in its shade
    all great nations lived.^(A)

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will groan^[a] when pangs come upon you,
    pain as of a woman in labor!

⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane^[a]
    observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
    the ordinance of the Lord.^(A)