Job 38:41

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

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.

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

“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

“ ‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

any kind of raven,

“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

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

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

“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 they don’t know how to do good.”

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.