⁹ Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! ^(A)The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(A)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(B)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(C)Its^[a] end shall come with a flood, ^(D)and to the end there shall be war. ^(E)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[b] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(F)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(G)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

^49 (A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^(B)swooping down like the eagle, a nation ^(C)whose language you do not understand,

¹⁹ the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and ^(A)the bat.

^28 (A)Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.