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