Birds

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Job 39:26 OT

  “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

• Leviticus 11:18 OT

  the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

• Leviticus 11:19 OT

  the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

• Isaiah 2:20 OT

  In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

• Job 39:13 OT

  “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

• Job 39:18 OT

  When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

• 1 Kings 10:22 OT

  For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• Deuteronomy 14:12 OT

  But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

• Deuteronomy 22:7 OT

  You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

• Proverbs 1:17 OT

  For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

• Genesis 6:7 OT

  Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

• Jeremiah 12:4 OT

  How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

• Ezekiel 38:20 OT

  so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down,…

• Hosea 4:3 OT

  Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky, yes, the fish of the sea also die.

• 1 Kings 4:33 OT

  He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

• Jeremiah 5:27 OT

  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

• Romans 1:23 NT

  and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

• Isaiah 46:11 OT

  I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

• Proverbs 27:8 OT

  As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

• Isaiah 16:2 OT

  For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Matthew 13:19 NT

  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12 OT

  For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

• Psalms 124:7 OT

  Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

• Proverbs 1:10-17 OT

  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the…