13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The trap is broken and we have escaped.

Like a bird that wanders from her nest [with its comfort and safety],
So is a man who wanders from his home.

Calling a bird of prey from the east,
From a far country, the man (Cyrus) of My purpose.
Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, be assured I will do it.

“Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me [unlike the others]?
Are the birds of prey (enemies) surrounding her on every side?
Go, gather all the [wild] beasts of the field;
Bring them to devour [her]!

“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

In the Lord I take refuge [and put my trust];
How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;

I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am against your magic bands [and veils] by which you hunt [human] lives as birds and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the lives you hunt go free, even those lives whom you hunt as birds.

When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens [into Assyrian captivity].
I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation (prophecy) to their congregation.

Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the ground when it has caught nothing at all? [Of course not! So it is that Israel has earned her impending judgment.]