13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul as a sparrow was delivered from the snare of the fowlers: the snare was broken and we were delivered.

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

Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.

The ravenous hyena is my inheritance to me, rushing round about upon her; go ye, gather together all the beasts of the field, set ye upon to eat her.

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

And saying, Who will give me the wing-feather as a dove? I will fly away and settle down.

To the overseer; of David. In Jehovah I put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, Wander ye to your mountain, little bird?

I watched and I shall be as the sparrow being alone upon the roof

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

Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against your pillows with which ye lie in wait there for the souls to break forth, and I rent them from your arms, and I sent away the souls, the souls which ye lie in wait for to break forth.

When they shall go I will spread my net upon them; as birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will correct them when hearing to their assembly.

Will the bird fall upon the snare of the earth and no noose for her? shall a snare be brought up from the earth and a taking shall not be taken?