54 Bible Verses about Birds

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control.

You may eat any clean bird.

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.

God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.

He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.

and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.

Consider the ravens for they do not sow or reap. They have no storehouse or barn. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

He is the one who gives food to animals and to young ravens when they call out.

He sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water dried up from the earth.

and every raven in its kind,

You will drink from the brook. I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.

Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.

You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on the wings of eagles and brought you to me.

It was easy to love Saul and Jonathan. Together in life, together in death, they were faster than eagles and stronger than lions.

They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.

Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

And herds will lie down in her midst, all the beasts of the nations. The pelican and the porcupine will lodge on the top of her pillars. Their voice will sing (hoot) (croak) in the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds for he will lay bare that which is built with cedar.

I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.

My dove, my undefiled is the one. She is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her. The queens and the concubines praised her.

Then Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw God's Spirit coming down like a dove.

kites, all types of buzzards,

and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,

No bird of prey knows the way to it. No hawk's eye has ever seen it.

Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.

Two women came out with the wind in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork. They lifted up the ephah measure between earth and heaven.

Now I have handed all these countries over to my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made wild animals serve him.

Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.

He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

According to God's Law they must offer a sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

The eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up voices among the branches.

And the doors will be shut in the streets. When the sound of the grinding is low he will rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music will be brought low.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up voices among the branches.

And the doors will be shut in the streets. When the sound of the grinding is low he will rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music will be brought low.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.

Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.

Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.

How long will our land be dry and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people. These people say: God does not see what we are doing.

So Jehovah said: I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth. All of them: men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air. I am sorry that I created them.

Therefore the land will mourn. All the inhabitants are weak. The beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea will also perish.

The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the people who are on the face of the earth will shake at my presence! The mountains will be thrown down! The steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.'

Do two sparrows sell for a penny? Not one of them will fall on the ground without your Father knowing.

Are not five sparrows sold for two coins of small value? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.

I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves.

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

the swan, the great owl, the white owl,

the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

swans, pelicans, ospreys,

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places.

Your body will be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten them away.

When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you. He will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?

We escaped as a bird out of the trap of fowlers (bird catchers). The trap is broken, and we have escaped.

My son, if sinners tempt you do not consent. If they say: Come with us. Let us lie in wait to kill someone. Let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit. read more.
We will find precious material possessions and we fill our houses with plunder. Throw in with us. Let us all have one purse. My son, do not walk in the way with them. Withhold your food from their path! For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

Jesus said: I say to you, this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.

Then with curses and oaths he said: I do not know the man! And immediately a rooster crowed.

Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

Bless Jehovah with all my being! O Jehovah my God, You are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty. You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain. You lay the beams of your upper chambers in the waters. You make the clouds your chariot. You walk upon the wings of the wind. read more.
You make the winds your messengers, the flaming fire your ministers. You established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not be unstable forever. You covered it with the deep like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. They fled at your rebuke. At the sound of your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth. You send watering springs to the valleys. They flow between the mountains. They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up voices among the branches.

Life is more than food and clothing. Consider the ravens for they do not sow or reap. They have no storehouse or barn. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

That evening many quails came and landed everywhere in the camp, and the next morning dew covered the ground.

Jehovah sent a wind from the sea that brought quails and dropped them all around the camp. There were quails on the ground about three feet deep as far as you could walk in a day in any direction.

The Israelites asked, and he brought them quail and filled them with bread from heaven.

Consider the ravens for they do not sow or reap. They have no storehouse or barn. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

He is the one who gives food to animals and to young ravens when they call out.

Do two sparrows sell for a penny? Not one of them will fall on the ground without your Father knowing.

Are not five sparrows sold for two coins of small value? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

Are not five sparrows sold for two coins of small value? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.

kites, all types of buzzards,

No bird of prey knows the way to it. No hawk's eye has ever seen it.

Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

You may eat any clean bird.

You may eat any clean bird.

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares Jehovah.

Jehovah of Hosts will defend Jerusalem like a hovering bird. He will defend it and rescue it. He will pass over it and protect it.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird: No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

I summon a bird of prey from the east. I summon a man to fulfill my purpose from a far off land. What I have said I will bring about. What I have determined (purposed) I will do.

My chosen people are like a bird attacked from all sides by hawks. Call the wild animals to come and join in the feast!

Gog and his army and his allies will fall dead on the mountains of Israel. I will let their bodies be food for all the birds and wild animals.'

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

the priest will order that two ritually clean birds be brought, along with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.

Do two sparrows sell for a penny? Not one of them will fall on the ground without your Father knowing. Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear! You are more valuable than many sparrows.

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of Jehovah. The king of Israel comes to search for a flea. Yet he hunts me down like a partridge on the mountains.

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

And he looked at the Kenite and continued his discourse. He said: Your dwelling place is enduring and your nest is set in the cliff.

You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.'

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves. Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell. They lift up voices among the branches.

And the doors will be shut in the streets. When the sound of the grinding is low he will rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music will be brought low.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

swans, pelicans, ospreys,

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places.

That day people will throw their silver and gold idols, that they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and the bats.

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

If you are offering a bird as a burnt offering, it must be a dove or a pigeon.

I see that there are no people, and every bird has flown away.

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Even the jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.

All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs. Under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth and all great nations lived under its shade.

Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one takes away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them.

Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.

All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs. Under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth and all great nations lived under its shade.

Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

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

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

all types of crows,

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

I am a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

The leaves were beautiful and the fruit abundant. In it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shadow under it. The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches. All flesh was fed by it.

Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.

Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.

Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.

For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures, kites, all types of buzzards, all types of crows, read more.
ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons, little owls, cormorants, great owls, swans, pelicans, ospreys, storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats. Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.

These are the ones you should not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, and every raven in its kind, read more.
and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, the swan, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them.

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

the birds, the fish, whatever swims in the currents of the seas.

All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

You may eat any clean bird. These are the ones you should not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds, read more.
and every raven in its kind, and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, the swan, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. And all the teeming life with wings is unclean to you. Do not eat them. You may eat any clean bird.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

He cried out with a strong voice: Babylon the Great has fallen, she has fallen! She has become the habitation of demons, and a haunt for every unclean spirit. She is a prison for every unclean and hateful bird.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. She is unaware that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. read more.
She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned. This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high? It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag. read more.
It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away. Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young. Let the mother go. You may take the young. Let the mother go. May things go well with you and you may prolong your days.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,

Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.

animals on the earth, birds that fly in the air,

animals on the earth, birds that fly in the air,

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

swans, pelicans, ospreys,

little owls, cormorants, great owls,

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

kites, all types of buzzards,

swans, pelicans, ospreys,

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

I have heard my people complain. I said to them: 'Each evening you will have meat and each morning they will have more than enough bread.' Then you will know that I am Jehovah their God.' That evening many quails came and landed everywhere in the camp, and the next morning dew covered the ground.

Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But no suitable helper was found for Adam.

Never eat the blood of any bird or animal no matter where you live.

My chosen people are like a bird attacked from all sides by hawks. Call the wild animals to come and join in the feast!

As for you, son of man, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: Assemble and come, gather from every side to my sacrifice that I am going to sacrifice for you. It is a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich.

My chosen people are like a bird attacked from all sides by hawks. Call the wild animals to come and join in the feast!

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.

I summon a bird of prey from the east. I summon a man to fulfill my purpose from a far off land. What I have said I will bring about. What I have determined (purposed) I will do.

I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food. It was so.

Praise him you wild animals and all domestic animals, crawling animals and birds.

Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.

He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls. He talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness. I have become like an owl of the waste places.

Also take seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

That same hour it was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men and did eat grass like bulls. His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' feathers, and his fingernails like birds' claws.

All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control.

I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.

Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.

God said: Let the waters be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. read more.
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. God said: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind. It was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground. God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female. God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground. Then God said: I give you every plant that bears seed on the face of the entire earth. I also give you every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food. It was so.

Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young. Let the mother go. You may take the young. Let the mother go. May things go well with you and you may prolong your days.

Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?

Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls. He talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

Ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you.

Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

I saw another beast. It was like a LEOPARD. It had four wings as a bird on its back. The beast also had four heads. Dominion (ruling authority) was given to it.