40 Bible Verses about flying

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

"Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe. Woe. Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound."

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

For you shall not depart in haste, nor shall you leave in flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."

Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

"'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make them fly.

while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came to me in my weariness about the time of the evening sacrifice.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

And pray that it won't be in the winter.

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

As birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

The first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

The oracle of the animals of the Negev. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

I will cause it to go out," says the LORD of hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."

See the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than they?

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says the LORD.

It will happen in that day that the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain."