Quotes About Wildlife

The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

and say: ëWhat was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëAs surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

Where is the lionsí lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?

In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.

There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.