16 Bible Verses about Nests

Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

Even the sparrow found a house for herself and the swallow a nest to lay her young at your altar, LORD of the Heavenly Armies, my king and God.

Owls will nest there, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for their young under the shadow of their wings; yes indeed, vultures will gather there, each one with its mate."

Abandon the cities, and live on the cliffs, you inhabitants of Moab. Be like a dove that builds a nest by the mouth of a cave.

Balaam also uttered this prophetic statement about the Kenites: "Your dwelling places are stable, because your nest is carved in solid rock.

Jesus told him, "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest."

"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.

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

My hand has found, as if in a nest, the wealth of the people; and as one gathers eggs that have been abandoned, so I have gathered all the inhabitants of the earth. Nothing moved a wing, opened its mouth, or chirped.'

Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions,

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you. You who live in hidden places in the rocks, who hold on to the heights of the hill, although you make your nest high like the eagle, I'll bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

Jesus told him, "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest."

the birds build their nests there, and the heron builds its nest among the evergreen.

The birds in the sky made nests in its boughs; all the beasts of the field gave birth under its branches. All the great nations rested in its shade.

"When you encounter a bird's nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting on its chicks or eggs, don't take the mother along with its young.

The nursing child will play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers' dens.