42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a powerful hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, the powerful hunter before the LORD.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the mortal pestilence.

And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was an upright man, remaining in the tents.

Now, therefore, take I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison

Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up; he stooped down, he couched as a lion and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

And any man of the sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.

Moreover, my father, see; see the skirt of thy robe is even in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and did not kill thee, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou doest hunt my life to take it.

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Behold the people, who shall rise up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

They opened their mouth upon me as a ravening and a roaring lion.

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

their roaring shall be like a lion: they shall roar like young lions; they shall gnash their teeth and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasures and honour; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

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

The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and his dens with robbery.

They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.

Does the eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest on high? She dwells and abides on the rock upon the crag of the rock and the strong place. From there she seeks food, and her eyes behold afar off.read more.
Her young ones suck up the blood; and wherever the slain are, there she is.

and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out of there; and though they hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Behold, I send many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after, will I send many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

But I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will cause him to be taken to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it though he shall die there.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For among my people were found wicked men: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.

Then Jacob was wroth and contended with Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

See, therefore, and take knowledge of all the hiding places where he hides himself and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land that I will search him out with all the thousands of Judah.

Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD, for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.

For a net shall be cast at his feet, and he shall walk upon a network. The snare shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. The cord is hidden in the ground and a trap for him in the way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet did not I err from thy precepts.

The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.

Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity.

Escape as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to turn aside the poor from right judgment and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless!

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep without a shepherd: they shall each man look unto his own people, and flee each one unto his own land.

And the truth was taken captive; and he that departed from evil was imprisoned: and the LORD saw it, and it was displeasing in his eyes because that which is right was lost.

Tzaddi My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

The merciful man of the earth is missing: and there is no one upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each man his brother with a net.

And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.

The deceitful man does not even roast that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.