Animals: Habits of

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.

The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. …

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,