the raven

²⁴Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap; there is no storehouse or barn for them. And yet God pastures them. How much more are you, compared to them?

⁴And there you shall drink from the torrent. And I have instructed the ravens to feed you there.”

⁷which went forth and did not return, until the waters were dried up across the earth.

⁹He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.

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

¹¹and detestable; their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall avoid. ¹²All that does not have fins and scales in the waters shall be polluted. ¹³These are those things among the birds which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey, ¹⁴and the kite, as well as the vulture, according to their kind, ¹⁵and all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness,

¹⁷The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.

⁶And the ravens carried bread and flesh to him in the morning, and likewise bread and flesh in the evening. And he drank from the torrent.

¹⁵and all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness,

¹⁴and any kind of raven,

¹¹The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.

¹¹Chorus to Bride: What kind of beloved is your beloved, O most beautiful among women? What kind of beloved is your beloved, so that you would bind us by oath?