11 Bible Verses about Ostriches
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The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion.
And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind;
And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after his kind,
The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion. For she will leave her eggs to the earth, and she will warm them in the dust; And she will forget that the foot will press it, and the beast of the field will crush itread more.
She made hard to her sons as not to her: her labor in vain without fear; For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding. For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.
Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked: I will make wailing as jackals, and mourning as the daughters of the ostrich.
I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.
The beast of the field shall know me, the sea monster and the daughters of the ostrich: for I gave waters in the desert, rivers in the waste to give drink to my people, my chosen.
And inhabitants of the desert reclined there, and their houses were filled with howlings, and the daughters of the ostrich dwelt there, and he goats shall leap there.
And thorns came up in her palaces, the nettle and the thorn bush in her fortifications, and it was a dwelling of jackals, an enclosure for the daughters of the ostrich.
For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation.
From Thematic Bible
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches
The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion.
Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.
Ostriches » Illustrative » Of the unnatural cruelty of the jews in their calamities
Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.
Ostriches » Unclean and unfit for food
And these ye shall abhor from the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the eagle, the sea-eagle, and the osprey.
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.
Ostriches » Described as » Cruel to her young
Ostriches » Described as » Void of wisdom
For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.
Ostriches » Described as » Imprudent
And she will forget that the foot will press it, and the beast of the field will crush it
Ostriches » Described as » Rapid in movement
For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.
Ostriches » Furnished with wings and feathers
The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion.
Ostriches » Lays her eggs in the sand
For she will leave her eggs to the earth, and she will warm them in the dust;
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 wailing as jackals, and mourning as the daughters of the ostrich.
For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation.
And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind;
And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after his kind,
I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.
Ostriches » The cry of
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked: I will make wailing as jackals, and mourning as the daughters of the ostrich.
