13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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

Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

My heritage is unto me like a speckled bird of prey, the birds round about are against her; come you, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your charms, with which you hunt the souls there like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that you hunt like birds.

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

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no trap is for it? shall one take up a snare from the earth, having taken nothing at all?