Bible Verses About Birds

ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

little owls, great owls, horned owls,

pelicans, barn owls, cormorants,

storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes and bats.

"All winged swarming creatures are unclean for you; they are not to be eaten;

but all clean flying creatures you may eat.

"If, as you are walking along, you happen to see a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground with chicks or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you are not to take the mother with the chicks.

You must let the mother go, but you may take the chicks for yourself; so that things will go well with you, and you will prolong your life.

"An ostrich's wings beat wildly, although its pinions lack plumage.

It leaves its eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed by the sand,

forgetting that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample on them.

It treats its chicks heartlessly, as if they were not its own; even if her labor is in vain, it really doesn't care;

because God has deprived it of wisdom and given it no share in understanding.

When the time comes, it flaps its wings, scorning both horse and rider.

"Is it your wisdom that sets the hawk soaring, spreading its wings toward the south?

Does the eagle fly up when you say so, to build its nest in the heights?

It lives and spends its nights on the cliffs; a rocky crag is its fortress.

From there it spots its prey, its eyes see it far off.

Its young ones suck up blood; wherever the slain are, there it is."

You made him but little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor,

you had him rule what your hands made, you put everything under his feet -

sheep and oxen, all of them, also the animals in the wilds,

the birds in the air, the fish in the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Bless ADONAI, my soul! ADONAI, my God, you are very great; you are clothed with glory and majesty,

wrapped in light as with a robe. You spread out the heavens like a curtain,