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1. This bird who "sits on eggs and hatcheth them not" is compared to a fool who "getteth riches, and not by right."

6. The Psalmist David says that if he had wings like this bird he would "fly away, and be at rest."

7. For those who were too poor to bring a large animal for sacrifice, provision was made that this bird could be offered.

9. This bird was provided by God for meat for the children of Israel in the wilderness.

13. Scripture tells us that this bird makes the fir tree her house.

15. The Lord told Job that God has deprived this bird of wisdom and understanding.

16. During the future day of the Lord's vengeance, this bird will be "gathered … with her mate."

17. The Lord asked Job, "Doth the _ _ _ _ fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?"

18. We are of more value than this bird of which our Heavenly Father takes notice.

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2. This is the first bird mentioned by name in Scripture and was sent out of the ark after the flood.

3. David, in his lamentation over the deaths of Saul and Jonathan, says, "they were swifter than _ _ _ _ _ _."

4. In His sorrow over Jerusalem, the Lord said He would have gathered them as a _ _ _ gathers her brood.

5. This bird is among a list of those who were to be had in abomination under the law.

7. During Solomon's reign, the navy of Tharshish brought these birds every three years.

8. After the winter is over, Solomon tells us that the voice of this bird is heard.

10. The Psalmist in his prayer of the afflicted, likens himself to a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the wilderness.

11. After Hezekiah was mercifully recovered he wrote that he chattered like this bird during his sickness.

12. During the day of the Lord a man shall cast his idols to these birds.

14. The Lord foretold Peter's three-fold denial before this fowl sounded.

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