Reference: Nest
Hastings
Used literally of birds' nests (De 22:6; 32:11; Job 39:27; Ps 84:3; 104:17; Pr 27:8; Isa 16:2); metaphorically for a lofty fortress (Nu 24:21; Jer 49:16; Ob 1:4; Hab 2:9); Job refers to his lost home as a nest (Job 29:18); in Ge 6:14 the 'rooms' of the ark are (see mg.) literally 'nests' (qinn
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Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.
If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:
As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.