sparrows

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father. ³⁰For even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. ³¹Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.

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?

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

³¹Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.

⁴For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

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

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God. ⁷But even the very hairs of your head have all been numbered. Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.

²⁵And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 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? ²⁷And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither work nor weave. ²⁹But I say to you, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these. ³⁰So if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast into the oven tomorrow, how much more will he care for you, O little in faith?

⁴¹Who provides the raven with its meal, when her chicks cry out to God, as they wander around because they have no food?

⁷In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you. ⁸Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain. ⁹Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? ¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

²Like a bird flying away to another place, and like a sparrow that hurries away freely, so also a curse uttered against someone without cause will pass away.

⁸I have kept vigil, and I have become like a solitary sparrow on a roof.