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 he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

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

Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

"Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; 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! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain."

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.

Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue.

He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,

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

Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?

The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.read more.
His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he."

If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

"Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.

The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!

save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.

Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.