Matthew 7:9

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?

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?

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

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

“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?

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

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

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

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

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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

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

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

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.

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.”

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

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.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

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

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