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100 Bible Verses about Bird Nests

Matthew 6:26 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Psalm 84:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

Deuteronomy 22:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

Matthew 8:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Psalm 104:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.

Isaiah 16:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

Proverbs 27:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

Jeremiah 8:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.

Matthew 13:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

Job 39:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

Jeremiah 48:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

Isaiah 34:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate.

Proverbs 1:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,

Job 38:41 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

Numbers 24:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.

Jeremiah 12:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Psalm 104:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 124:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Genesis 9:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Hosea 11:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 31:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes

All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.

Jeremiah 5:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;

Leviticus 12:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,

Leviticus 11:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Genesis 2:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

James 3:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,

1 Corinthians 15:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Luke 12:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Hosea 9:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Jeremiah 12:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

Isaiah 46:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

Isaiah 38:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

Isaiah 31:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.”

Song of Solomon 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 12:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—

Ecclesiastes 9:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Job 39:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

Leviticus 14:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Genesis 15:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Romans 1:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Hosea 4:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

Psalm 50:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.

Psalm 8:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

Job 39:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Job 35:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Job 28:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.

Job 12:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

1 Kings 10:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

Genesis 40:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

Genesis 8:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 13:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Matthew 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

Matthew 10:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Daniel 4:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.

Ezekiel 39:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

Ezekiel 39:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

Jeremiah 9:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 4:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.

Isaiah 34:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 7:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Psalm 148:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds!

Psalm 102:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

Leviticus 14:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

Leviticus 11:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,

Leviticus 11:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Every raven of any kind,

Leviticus 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.

Matthew 26:74 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.

Matthew 26:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

Daniel 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 10:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.”

Isaiah 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Proverbs 26:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Psalm 84:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah

Job 39:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Job 30:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

1 Samuel 26:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Deuteronomy 32:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,

Deuteronomy 14:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The kite, the falcon of any kind;

Leviticus 11:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 11:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,

Leviticus 11:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,

Leviticus 11:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The kite, the falcon of any kind,

Leviticus 7:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Genesis 7:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 6:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Revelation 18:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

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