13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

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

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

calling a ravenous bird 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. I will also do it.

Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour.

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which ye hunt the souls there to make fly, and I will tear them from your arms. And I will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make fly.

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no net is [set] for him? Shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?