Bible Verses About Birds
This collection includes 50 passages about Birds. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Scripture Passages
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
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