Genesis 1:24

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

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

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;