13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul has escaped like a bird from [the] snare of fowlers. The snare [is] broken, and we have escaped.

Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.

who calls a bird of prey from [the] east, the man of his plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it [to being]. I have formed [it]; indeed I will do it.

The lair of [the] hyena [is] my inheritance to me, the birds of prey [are] all around her. Go, gather all of the animals of the field, bring [them] {to come and devour}.

[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof.

Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am against your magic charm bands {with which you are ensnaring persons} as birds; I will tear them from your arms, and I will release the persons that you [are] ensnaring, [treating] persons as birds.

Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly.

Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something?