Animals: God's Care of

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

…and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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

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

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?