13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place.

Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I have formed it, yea, I do it.

A speckled fowl is Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

To the Overseer. -- By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, 'They moved to Thy mountain for the bird?

I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.

Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against your pillows, With which ye are hunting there the souls of the flourishing, And I have rent them from off your arms, And have sent away the souls that ye are hunting, The souls of the flourishing.

When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.

Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not?