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¹⁰The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

⁷Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.

²And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand.

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God.

⁶The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them.

²⁶Confess to the God of heaven, for his mercy is eternal.

¹⁸The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.” ¹⁹Therefore, the Lord God, having formed from the soil all the animals of the earth and all the flying creatures of the air, brought them to Adam, in order to see what he would call them. For whatever Adam would call any living creature, that would be its name.

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will pasture together. The lion and the ox will eat hay. And dust will be the food of the serpent. They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

¹Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And when he had come to him, he said to him: “Two men were in one city: one wealthy, and the other poor. ²The wealthy man had very many sheep and oxen. ³But the poor man had nothing at all, except one little sheep, which he had bought and nourished. And she had grown up before him, together with his children, eating from his bread, and drinking from his cup, and sleeping in his bosom. And she was like a daughter to him. ⁴But when a certain traveler had come to the wealthy man, neglecting to take from his own sheep and oxen, so that he might present a feast for that traveler, who had come to him, he took the sheep of the poor man, and he prepared a meal for the man who had come to him.” ⁵Then David’s indignation was enraged exceedingly against that man, and he said to Nathan: “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this is a son of death. ⁶He shall restore the sheep fourfold, because he did this word, and he did not take pity.”

¹But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,

⁹The Lord is sweet to all things, and his compassion is upon all his works.

⁶The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them. ⁷The calf and the bear will feed together; their young ones will rest together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox. ⁸And a breastfeeding infant will play above the lair of the asp. And a child who has been weaned will thrust his hand into the den of the king snake. ⁹They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain. For the earth has been filled with the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters covering the sea.

⁶And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”

⁶Lord, your mercy is in heaven, and your truth is even to the clouds. ⁷Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.

¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

²⁶Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?

²⁴God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it became. ²⁵And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.

⁷For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

¹³And every creature that is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and all that is within the sea: I heard them all saying: “To the One sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing, and honor, and glory, and authority, forever and ever.”