Jeremiah 8:7

World English Bible (2000)

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.

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  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."
  • Song 2:12 : 12 The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God. 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
  • Prov 6:6-8 : 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; 7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

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  • 8How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

  • 3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

  • 14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."

  • Isa 34:15-16
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    15The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

    16Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

  • 17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

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    15and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,

    16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

    17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

    18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • 3Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

  • Hos 8:1-2
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    1"Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

    2They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!'

  • Lev 11:16-19
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    16the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

    17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

    18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

    19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • 12The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

  • 6I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

  • 22"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • 8"Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

  • 12When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

  • 33The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

  • Job 39:26-27
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    26"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

    27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

  • 7That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

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    8The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

  • 3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • 11We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • 7"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

  • 14My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

  • 11They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses," says Yahweh.

  • 12For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

  • 12But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

  • 9Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

  • 8The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • 11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

  • 4Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • 19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

  • 13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • 11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

  • 6If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:

  • 21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

  • 1"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

  • 28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

  • 9Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • 12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.