40 Bible Verses about flying

Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying directly overhead, proclaiming with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow them!"

You need not fear the terrors of the night, the arrow that flies by day,

Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the Lord goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.

If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,

Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Someone asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide."

Then I looked again and saw two women going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.

"'Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people's lives like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people's lives, which you hunt like birds.

yes, while I was still praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, around the time of the evening offering.

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.

Pray that it may not be in winter.

One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.

Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth -- to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Fast runners will find no place to hide; strong men will have no strength left; warriors will not be able to save their lives.

Just as birds hover over a nest, so the Lord who commands armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; as he passes over he will rescue it.

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children -- they will not enjoy pregnancy -- they will not even conceive!

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

Seraphs stood over him; each one had six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and they used the remaining two to fly.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of -- away from the presence of the serpent -- for a time, times, and half a time.

Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off --

The first living creature was like a lion, the second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like a man's, and the fourth creature looked like an eagle flying.

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

But those who wait for the Lord's help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

"I will send it out," says the Lord who rules over all, "and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones."

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!" says the Lord.

At that time the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!