Quotes about Birds

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.