13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use
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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool."
I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain."
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
"'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?
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