42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

“Judah is a lion’s whelp;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

Now, my father, see! Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you, know and perceive that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life to take it.

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.

“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

“Behold, a people rises like a lioness,
And as a lion it lifts itself;
It will not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”

“The lion perishes for lack of prey,
And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.

The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it seizes the prey
And carries it off with no one to deliver it.

‘And he walked about among the lions;
He became a young lion,
He learned to tear his prey;
He devoured men.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey?
Does a young lion growl from his den unless he has captured something?

The lion tore enough for his cubs,
Killed enough for his lionesses,
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.

“They slip by like reed boats,
Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.

“Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
And makes his nest on high?
“On the cliff he dwells and lodges,
Upon the rocky crag, an inaccessible place.
“From there he spies out food;
His eyes see it from afar.
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“His young ones also suck up blood;
And where the slain are, there is he.”

“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there;
And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

“Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Now then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
“A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not gone astray from Your precepts.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set snares for me. Selah.

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the orphans.

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep with none to gather them,
They will each turn to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.

Yes, truth is lacking;
And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.
Now the Lord saw,
And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

A lazy man does not roast his prey,
But the precious possession of a man is diligence.