45 Bible Verses about Deer

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And sets me upon my high places.

The Lord God is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.
For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And sets me on my high places.

Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the Arabah.

“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep with none to gather them,
They will each turn to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.

As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.

“Naphtali is a doe let loose,
He gives beautiful words.

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Behold, he is standing behind our wall,
He is looking through the windows,
He is peering through the lattice.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

The voice of the Lord makes the deer to calve
And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

“Hurry, my beloved,
And be like a gazelle or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.”

You shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as a gazelle or a deer.

“For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young,
Because there is no grass.

All her majesty
Has departed from the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
And they have fled without strength
Before the pursuer.

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.

“Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?

My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen stand afar off.

Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.

Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.

But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you do not arouse or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”

Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel; and Asahel was as swift-footed as one of the gazelles which is in the field.

From the Gadites there came over to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

“God is my strong fortress;
And He sets the blameless in His way.

ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

Then you will take delight in the Lord,
And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

The God who girds me with strength
And makes my way blameless?

Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”