A New Thing

¹⁴ You make grass grow for cattle; you make plants for human farming in order to get food from the ground, ¹⁵ and wine, which cheers people’s hearts, along with oil, which makes the face shine, and bread, which sustains the human heart. ¹⁶ The LORD’s trees are well watered the cedars of Lebanon, which God planted, ¹⁷ where the birds make their nests, where the stork has a home in the cypresses. ¹⁸ The high mountains belong to the mountain goats; the ridges are the refuge of badgers. ¹⁹ God made the moon for the seasons, and the sun too, which knows when to set. ²⁰ You bring on the darkness and it is night, when every forest animal prowls. ²¹ The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. ²² When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens. ²³ Then people go off to their work, to do their work until evening.