Bible Verses About Ostriches

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.

So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.