Matthew 6:26

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

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

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

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

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

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

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

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

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

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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

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

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

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

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

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

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

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

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.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

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

He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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.”

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.

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

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.”

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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

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

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

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