Found 99 Results for: Forbidden Birds
scanning every step of the path that lay before him. He must endure all in patience, rather than taste, for love of life, the forbidden meat. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
bidding them cut the blaspheming tongue in pieces and cast it to the birds, nail the rash hand to the temple’s face. (2 Maccabees 15, 33)
Eyes that stray to forbidden charms, a mind uttering thoughts that are none of thine, (Proverbs 23, 33)
Of the king, no treasonable thought; of the nobles, no ill word even in thy bed-chamber; the very birds in heaven will catch the echoes of it, and fly off to betray thy secret. (Ecclesiastes 10, 20)
Later on, they were to see how birds could be the subject of a new creation, when their appetites craved for richer fare, (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 11)
One stone flung, and the birds are all on the wing; one taunt uttered, and the friendship is past repair. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 25)
the owls will hoot to one another in its palaces, birds of ill omen in its temples of delight.✻ (Isaiah 13, 22)
Too soon, Philistia, thou wouldst make public holiday over the breaking of the rod that smote thee. The serpent has gone, but he has left a basilisk stock behind him; a race that can catch birds on the wing. (Isaiah 14, 29)
There they will be, the women-folk of Moab, waiting at the ford of Arnon, like fluttered birds, fledgelings that have taken wing from the nest; (Isaiah 16, 2)
All alike will be left a prey to the mountain birds, and the beasts that roam through the land; all through summer the birds will hover about it,✻ and the beasts flock to it in winter. (Isaiah 18, 6)
Bread the Lord will grant, though it be sparingly, water, though it be in short measure. Birds of passage they shall be no longer,✻ the men he gives thee for thy teachers; always thou wilt have a true counsellor in sight, (Isaiah 30, 20)
See how they lodge in tombs, pass the night in the precincts of strange gods;✻ eat swine’s flesh, and stew themselves broth of forbidden things! (Isaiah 65, 4)
