<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Then I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own home,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Is it at your command<n id="1" /> that the eagle soars,p> <p class="poetry">and builds its nest on high?p>

<p class="poetry">Like a bird that wanders<n id="1" /> from its nest,p> <p class="poetry">so is a person who wanders from his home.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Your dwelling place seems strong,p> <p class="poetry">and your nest<n id="1" /> is set on a rocky cliff.p>

<p class="poetry">Like an eagle that stirs up<n id="1" /> its nest,p> <p class="poetry">that hovers over its young,p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> spread out his wings and took him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he lifted him up on his pinions.p>

<p class="poetry">At the fords of the Arnon<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the Moabite women are like a birdp> <p class="poetry">that flies about when forced from its nest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even if you were to soar high like an eagle,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even if you<n id="2" /> were to make your nest among the stars,p> <p class="poetry">I can bring you down even from there!&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He does this so he can build his nest way up highp> <p class="poetry">and escape the clutches of disaster.<n id="2" />p>

Make<n id="1" /> for yourself an ark of cypress<n id="2" /> wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover<n id="3" /> it with pitch inside and out.

<p class="poetry">Even the birds find a home there,p> <p class="poetry">and the swallow<n id="1" /> builds a nest,p> <p class="poetry">where she can protect her young<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">near your altars, O <sc>Lord who rules over allsc>,p> <p class="poetry">my king and my God.p>

<p class="bodytext">If you happen to notice a bird&#8217;s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them,<n id="1" /> you must not take the mother from the young.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest,p> <p class="poetry">as one gathers up abandoned eggs,p> <p class="poetry">I gathered up the whole earth.p> <p class="poetry">There was no wing flapping,p> <p class="poetry">or open mouth chirping.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The terror you inspire in others<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you.p> <p class="poetry">You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks;p> <p class="poetry">you may occupy the highest places in the hills.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But even if you made your home where the eagles nest,p> <p class="poetry">I would bring you down from there,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>