13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use
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Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
Like a bird that wanders from her nest,
So is a man who wanders from his home.
Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man of My purpose from a far country.
Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, surely I will do it.
“Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me?
Are the birds of prey against her on every side?
Go, gather all the beasts of the field,
Bring them to devour!
“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him,
And in the end he will be a fool.”
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;
I lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt lives there as birds and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let them go, even those lives whom you hunt as birds.
When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?
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