"Is it by your understandingthat the hawksoars,Stretchinghis wingstoward the south?
"As oftenas the trumpet[sounds] he says,'Aha!'And he scentsthe battlefrom afar,And the thunderof the captainsand the warcry.
"Is it at your commandthat the eaglemountsup And makeshis neston high?
The flowershave [already] appearedin the land;The timehas arrivedfor pruning[the vines], And the voiceof the turtledovehas been heardin our land.
"Eventhe storkin the skyKnowsher seasons;And the turtledoveand the swiftand the thrushObservethe timeof their migration;But My peopledo not knowThe ordinanceof the LORD.
"Then Aaronshall offerthe bullof the sinofferingwhichis for himself and makeatonementfor himself and for his household,and he shall slaughterthe bullof the sinofferingwhichis for himself.
and the ostrich,the owl,the seagull,and the hawkin their kinds,
