11 Bible Verses about Ostriches
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And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?read more.
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.
And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.
From Thematic Bible
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches
Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
Ostriches » Illustrative » Of the unnatural cruelty of the jews in their calamities
Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
Ostriches » Unclean and unfit for food
And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Ostriches » Described as » Cruel to her young
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
Ostriches » Described as » Void of wisdom
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
Ostriches » Described as » Imprudent
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
Ostriches » Described as » Rapid in movement
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Ostriches » Furnished with wings and feathers
Ostriches » Lays her eggs in the sand
Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;
And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk and birds of that sort;
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Ostriches » The cry of
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
