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Henry Chichester Hart served as naturalist on the Palestine Exploration Fund’s 1883 Palestine Expedition. The Animals Mentioned in the Bible condenses his and other scholars’ observations of Holy Land fauna. Hart describes Bible animals, emphasizing the characteristics to which the Bible refers. When identification is difficult, he describes the various possibilities and lets the reader decide....

my King, and my God.’ Here the metaphor is one of rejoicing; and the Psalmist pours forth his heart in glad and beautiful verse, full of the hope that he too may be permitted to dwell in the house of his God. THE SPARROW In Ps. 102 the tone is, on the contrary, one of grievous complaint. The sparrow is selected as the very picture of despair and destitution; ‘My heart is smitten, and withereth like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to