13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

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

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

My heritage is unto me as a speckled bird of prey; the birds of prey round about are against her. Go, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

As the partridge sitteth on eggs it hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

I watch, and am like a sparrow alone upon the housetop.

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

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

Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your pillows, that the souls which ye catch by their means may fly away; and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls that ye catch, that they may fly away.

When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowl of the heavens; I will chastise them, according as their assembly hath heard.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin is laid for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken?