42 Bible Verses about Hunting

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.

Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague.

And the boys grew. And Esau was a man knowing hunting, and Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.

And now please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.

Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have gone up from the prey. He stooped, he crouched like a lion; and like a lioness, who shall rouse him?

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

And, my father, behold! Yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my soul to take it.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions,

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

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's cubs are scattered abroad.

their likeness is like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping 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; for, they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and 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 tear the prey, and ate men.

A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.

Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den unless he has caught?

The lion tears in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangles for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with torn prey.

They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.

Does the eagle mount up at your command and make his nest on high? He lives and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock and the strong place. From there he seeks food, and his eyes see afar off.read more.
And his young brood also sucks up blood; and where the dead are, there he is.

And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they are hidden from My sight in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there, and he shall bite them.

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

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah, and they will fish them. And afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

I will also spread My net on 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, though he shall die there.

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

For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

And Jacob was angry, and rebuked Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me?

And see and know of all the hiding places where he hides himself there, and return to me prepared. And I will go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

And now, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of Jehovah. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.

For he is thrown into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a net. The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him. The pitfall is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet I do not go astray from Your Commandments.

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

Keep me from the traps which they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of evil.

Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to steal the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the orphans!

And it shall be as a driven gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall look to his own people, and each one flee into his own land.

Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.

My haters have hunted me, like a bird, without cause.

The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

And God was with the boy, and he grew, and lived in the wilderness, and became an archer.

The lazy one does not start after his game, but the wealth of a hard worker is precious.