13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul, as a bird, hath escaped from the snare of the fowlers, The snare, is broken, and, we, are escaped:

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

Calling, From the East, a Bird of Prey, From a far country, the Man I intended, - Yea I have spoken I will also bring it to pass, I have planned, I will also do it.

Is it, a variegated bird of prey, that mine inheritance is to me? The birds of prey, are round about against her! Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field bring them to devour.

As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.

Then I said - Oh that there were given me a pinion, like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest:

In Yahweh, have I sought refuge. How can ye say to my soul, Flee to a mountain like a little bird;

I have watched and am become, Like a bird sitting alone upon a housetop.

Deliver thyself, as a gazelle out of the hand, and as a bird, out of the hand of the fowler.

They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:

Therefore, Thus saith my Lord Yahweh, Behold me! against your oracle-cases where. with ye are hunting the souls to make them fly, And I will tear them off your arms, And let go the souls of them whose souls ye are hunting as birds;

Whithersoever they go, I will spread over them my net, like a bird of the heavens, will I bring them down, I will chastise them, by the time the report can reach the flock of them.

Will a bird fall upon a net to the earth, when there is no, snare, for it? Will a net rise front the ground, when it hath, captured nothing?