Here are 30 Bible verses about birds and their significance:
- Matthew 6:26:
“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:
“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.”
- Proverbs 27:8:
“Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.”
- Matthew 10:29:
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.”
- Genesis 8:7:
“And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.”
- Leviticus 14:4:
“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.”
- Job 12:7-10:
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.”
- Psalm 104:17:
“Here the birds build their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.”
- Proverbs 1:17-18:
“For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.”
- Ecclesiastes 10:20:
“Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.”
- Isaiah 40:31:
“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.”
- Jeremiah 8:7:
“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.”
- Job 38:41:
“Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?”
- Hosea 7:11:
“Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.”
- Matthew 3:16:
“And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.”
- Leviticus 11:13-20:
“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind, every raven of any kind, the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.”
- Psalm 55:6:
“And I say, ‘Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.’”
- Jeremiah 17:11:
“Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.”
- Genesis 15:11:
“And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.”
- Psalm 102:7:
“I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.”
- Deuteronomy 22:6-7:
“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.”
- Luke 12:24:
“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 13:32:
“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.”
- 1 Kings 17:4:
“You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- Ecclesiastes 12:4:
“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.”
- Deuteronomy 28:26:
“And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.”
- Genesis 40:17:
“In the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”
- Psalm 148:10:
“Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds!”
- Song of Solomon 2:12:
“The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”
- Revelation 18:2:
“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.’”
These verses speak to the symbolism of birds in various contexts and their significance in Biblical narratives.
