Animals: Homes of

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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?

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

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.

…a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

…and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.