As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them and bears them on her wing,

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

Like as birds flutter about their nests, so shall the LORD of Hosts keep, save, defend and deliver Jerusalem.

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow,
an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,
to seize the wealth of the nations.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
I gathered the whole earth.
No wing fluttered;
no beak opened or chirped.

In reference to the prophets: Broken hath been my heart in my midst, Fluttered have all my bones, I have been as a man -- a drunkard, And as a man -- wine hath passed over him, Because of Jehovah, and of His holy words.

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

Like fluttering birds, like an abandoned nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];
Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,
He did not know that it would cost him his life.