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 yourself an ark of gofer wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.
Next he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his poem: Your dwelling place is enduring; your nest is set in the cliffs.
"If you come across a bird's nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
He watches over His nest like an eagle and hovers over His young; He spreads His wings, catches him, and lifts him up on His pinions.
So I thought: I will die in my own nest and multiply [my] days as the sand.
Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest on high?
Even a sparrow finds a home, and a swallow, a nest for herself where she places her young- near Your altars, Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.
There the birds make their nests; the stork makes its home in the pine trees.
A man wandering from his home is like a bird wandering from its nest.
Like a bird fleeing, forced from the nest, the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.
As to the terror you cause, your presumptuous heart has deceived you. You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down. [This is]*The bracketed text has been added for clarity. the Lord's declaration.
Woe to him who unjustly gains wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape from the reach of disaster!
Jesus told him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head."
Jesus told him, "Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head."