13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.

The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. But other birds of prey are all around them. Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own.

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!

I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

"'Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people's lives like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people's lives, which you hunt like birds.

I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.

Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?