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27 These all look to you
    to give them their food in due season;(A)

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He gives to the animals their food
    and to the young ravens when they cry.(A)

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25 who gives food to all flesh,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.(A)

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24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!(A) 25 And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life?[a](B) 26 If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,[b] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.(C) 28 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!

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Footnotes

  1. 12.25 Or add a cubit to your stature
  2. 12.27 Other ancient authorities read Consider the lilies: they neither spin nor weave

41 Who provides for the raven its prey,
    when its young ones cry to God
    and wander about for lack of food?(A)

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15 The eyes of all look to you,
    and you give them their food in due season.(A)
16 You open your hand,
    satisfying the desire of every living thing.

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Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains;
    your judgments are like the great deep;
    you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.(A)

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31 For by these he governs peoples;
    he gives food in abundance.(A)

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