Birds

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Ecclesiastes 12:4 OT

  and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

• Song of Solomon 2:12 OT

  The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

• Isaiah 31:5 OT

  As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

• Hosea 9:11 OT

  As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

• Hosea 11:11 OT

  They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 8:7 OT

  Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

• Jeremiah 4:25 OT

  I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.

• Jeremiah 9:10 OT

  I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have…

• Daniel 4:12 OT

  The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

• Matthew 13:32 NT

  which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

• Psalms 102:6 OT

  I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

• Isaiah 14:23 OT

  “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 34:11 OT

  But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

• Isaiah 34:14 OT

  The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

• Isaiah 34:15 OT

  The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

• Psalms 104:17 OT

  where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

• Ezekiel 31:6 OT

  All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.

• Numbers 24:21 OT

  He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.

• Jeremiah 48:28 OT

  You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

• Psalms 84:3 OT

  Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

• Genesis 8:20 OT

  Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• Genesis 8:8 OT

  He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

• Leviticus 14:22 OT

  and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 1:14 OT

  “ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.