42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the destructive pestilence.

And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents.

And now, I pray thee, take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field and hunt me venison,

Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?

And every one of the children of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn among them, that catcheth in the hunt a beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with earth;

And see, my father, yes, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou liest in wait for my life to take it.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Lo, the people will rise up as a lioness, and lift himself up as a lion. He shall not lie down until he have eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God.

Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is none to deliver;

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her;

Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing?

The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high? He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness: From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;read more.
And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them;

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them, from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, and there shall he die.

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

And Jacob was angry, and he disputed with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

And see, and ascertain all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with sure information, that I may go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout the thousands of Judah.

And now, let not my blood fall to the earth far from the face of Jehovah; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when they hunt a partridge on the mountains.

For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes; The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him; A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not wandered from thy precepts.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.

And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment.

They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.

And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.