The Mighty One, God, the LORD,
Speaks and summons the earth
From the rising of the sun
To the place where it sets…
‘I have no need of a bull from your stall
Or of goats from your pens,
For every animal of the forest is mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know every bird in the mountains,
And the creatures of the field are mine.’
Psalm 50:1, 9-11