13 Bible Verses about Birds, Figurative Use

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, So is a man that wandereth from his place.

calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

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

In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain;

I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter , And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye 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 that ye hunt to make them fly.

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is'set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?