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 wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth 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.

Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth 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 ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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

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

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

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 hath heard.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?