11 Bible Verses about Ostriches
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"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.read more.
She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.
Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
"Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
From Thematic Bible
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Ostriches » Illustrative » Of the unnatural cruelty of the jews in their calamities
Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Ostriches » Unclean and unfit for food
"And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
Ostriches » Described as » Cruel to her young
She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
Ostriches » Described as » Void of wisdom
because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
Ostriches » Described as » Imprudent
forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
Ostriches » Described as » Rapid in movement
Ostriches » Furnished with wings and feathers
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Ostriches » Lays her eggs in the sand
For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
"Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
Ostriches » The cry of
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
