Psalms 50:11

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

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?’

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

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

Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.

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.

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

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

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

They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

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.

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?

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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.

“ ‘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,

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

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.

Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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.”

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

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

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.

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

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

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

They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.

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

I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood.

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

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

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!

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

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?

I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,