26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
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And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-30)The birds of the air are proofs of the wonderful power and providences of God, as well as the beasts of the earth; God here refers particularly to two stately ones:—1. The hawk , a noble bird of great strength and sagacity, and yet a bird of prey, Job 39:26. This bird is here taken notice of for her flight, which is swift and strong, and especially for the course she steers towards the south , whi…
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