11 Bible Verses about Ostriches

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Job 39:13

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Deuteronomy 14:15

And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,

Job 39:13-18

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust, And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.read more.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern; Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Job 30:29

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Isaiah 43:20

The beast of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of jackals, and a court for ostriches.

Jeremiah 50:39

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

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Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches

Job 39:13

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: 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

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Ostriches » Unclean and unfit for food

Leviticus 11:13

And these are they which you shall hold in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,

Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation

Job 30:29

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Ostriches » Described as » Cruel to her young

Job 39:16

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

Ostriches » Described as » Void of wisdom

Job 39:17

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Ostriches » Described as » Imprudent

Job 39:15

And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

Ostriches » Described as » Rapid in movement

Job 39:18

When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

Ostriches » Furnished with wings and feathers

Job 39:13

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Ostriches » Lays her eggs in the sand

Job 39:14

Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Jeremiah 50:39

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Deuteronomy 14:15

And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,

Job 30:29

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

More verses: Isaiah 43:20

Ostriches » The cry of

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

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