- Matthew 10:29 (NIV)
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.”
- Psalm 84:3 (NIV)
“Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young—a place near your altar, Lord Almighty, my King and my God.”
- Luke 12:6 (NIV)
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.”
- Psalm 102:7 (NIV)
“I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.”
- Proverbs 26:2 (NIV)
“Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.”
- Psalm 102:6 (NIV)
“I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.”
- Proverbs 27:8 (NIV)
“Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from home.”
- Psalm 11:1 (NIV)
“In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: ‘Flee like a bird to your mountain.’”
- Psalm 56:1 (NIV)
“Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.”
- Psalm 102:8 (NIV)
“All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.”
- Job 41:5 (NIV)
“Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?”
- Proverbs 6:5 (NIV)
“Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.”
- Proverbs 30:19 (NIV)
“those who have a hawk-like gaze are like hawks and eagles, and those who have an evil eye are like vultures, kites, and sparrows.”
- Psalm 107:40 (NIV)
“he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless waste.”
- Isaiah 38:14 (NIV)
“I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
- Lamentations 3:52 (NIV)
“Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.”
- Ezekiel 13:20 (NIV)
“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds.”
- Hosea 7:11 (NIV)
“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless—now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.”
- Jeremiah 9:11 (NIV)
“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”
- Isaiah 38:14 (NIV)
“I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
- Hosea 11:11 (NIV)
“They will come from Egypt, trembling like sparrows, from Assyria, fluttering like doves. I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.”
- Job 29:17 (NIV)
“I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.”
- Proverbs 7:23 (NIV)
“till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.”
- Hosea 7:11 (NIV)
“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless—now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.”
- Jeremiah 5:26 (NIV)
“‘Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.”
- Lamentations 3:52 (NIV)
“Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.”
- Isaiah 31:5 (NIV)
“Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”
- Hosea 7:11 (NIV)
“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless—now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.”
- Jeremiah 12:9 (NIV)
“Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.”
- Jeremiah 12:9 (NIV)
“Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.”