13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

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

Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be 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; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain,

I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds.

As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.

Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?