13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders away from his home.

I am calling a bird of prey from the east, and from a far country a man with his purpose. Indeed, I've spoken; I will certainly make it happen; I've planned it; and I will certainly carry it out.

Is my inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to me? Are the other birds of prey all around her coming against her? Go, gather all the wild animals and bring them to devour it.

As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool."

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

I take refuge in the LORD. So how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains."?

I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter's hand, or like a bird from a fowler's hand.

My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification.

""Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says, "Watch out! I'm opposing your amulets with which you hunt souls as one would swat at a flying insect. I'll tear them off your arms and then deliver those people, whom you've hunted like birds.

When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.

Does a bird fall into a snare on the ground without any bait in the trap? Will a trap snap shut when there is nothing to catch?