Bible Verses About Ossifrage

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.