13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

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

calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken, I will also cause it to come; I have formed; yes, I will do it.

My inheritance is like a speckled bird to Me; the birds all around are against her. Go, gather all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I put my trust in Jehovah; how can you say to me, Flee like a bird to the mountains;

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

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

My haters have hunted me, like a bird, without cause.

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your bands with which you are hunting the souls there, to make them fly. And I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, the souls which you are hunting, to make them fly.

When they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.

Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?