Bible Verses About Ostriches

the ostrich, the screech-owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawks,

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

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

"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.

But wildcats will lie there, their houses will be full of owls, ostriches will live there, and wild goats will dance there.

Thorns will overgrow its palaces, nettles and thistles its fortresses; it will become a lair for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I put water in the desert, rivers in the wasteland, for my chosen people to drink,

"Therefore wildcats and jackals will live there, and ostriches will settle there. It will never again be peopled, it will be uninhabited age after age;

Even jackals bare their breasts in order to nurse their young, but the daughters of my people have become as cruel as ostriches in the desert.

This is why I howl and wail, why I go barefoot and stripped, why I howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.