'Fly' in the Bible
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!
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.
If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.
One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.
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.
Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?
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!
Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
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.
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