A Legend About Doves

From: Moody's Stories: Volume 2 By: Dwight Lyman Moody

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

Jeremiah 48:28²⁸O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. (Jeremiah 48:28); Proverbs 30:26²⁶The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; (Proverbs 30:26); 1 Corinthians 10:4⁴And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:4)

There is a beautiful legend about a conference held by the doves to decide where they should make their abode. One suggested that they should go to the woods; but the objection was made that there they would be in danger from hawks; another mentioned the cities, but boys would stone them there, and drive them away or kill them. Presently some dove suggested that they go and hide in the clefts of the rocks, and there they were safe. “O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.”

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee.

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