13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.

He that oft times flitteth, is like a bird that forsaketh her nest.

I call a bird out of the East, and all that I take in hand, out of far countries, as soon as I command, I bring it hither: as soon as I think to devise a thing, I do it.

Mine heritage is unto me, as a speckled bird; a bird of divers colors is upon it. Go hence, and gather all the beasts of the field together, that they may eat it up.

The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?

I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.

Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

{Tsadi} Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird; yea, and that without a cause.

Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will also upon the pillows, wherewith ye catch the souls in flying: them will I take from your arms, and let the souls go, that ye catch in flying.

but while they be going here and there, I shall spread my net over them, and draw them down as the fowls of the air. And according as they have been warned, so will I punish them.

Doth a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no fouler is? Taketh a man his snare up from the ground, afore he catch somewhat?