Found 99 Results for: Forbidden Birds

• looked for some sign of man, and in vain; the very birds in heaven had all taken flight. (Jeremiah 4, 25)

• Never was cage so full of birds, as their homes of wealth ill gotten; men of power and riches, (Jeremiah 5, 27)

• forbidden is the country-side, the high roads untravelled; the drawn sword threatens, and peril is all about us. (Jeremiah 6, 25)

• Nay, Juda shall be carrion for birds that fly in air, for beasts that roam the earth; and never a man left to drive them away. (Jeremiah 7, 33)

• Sad dirge be made for the hills, lament for all the wide pasture-lands, that are scorched bare, and left untravelled; silent the herdsman’s call; birds that nested there, cattle that grazed there, fled and gone. (Jeremiah 9, 10)

• Escort they shall have of four kinds, the Lord says; the sword to slay and the dogs to tear them, birds in air and beasts on earth to devour and make an end of them. (Jeremiah 15, 3)

• Die they of the plague, they shall lie like dung on the ground, unwept, unburied; meet they their end by sword or famine, birds in air and beasts that roam the earth shall prey on the carrion of them. (Jeremiah 16, 4)

• tamed the birds for their pastime; (Baruch 3, 17)

• about their bodies and heads fly owl and swallow; birds hover and cats prowl. (Baruch 6, 21)

• wood and silver and gold, patient of the birds that perch on them as bush of white-thorn, or corpse left to lie in a dark alley! (Baruch 6, 70)

• Have at those elbow-cushions of yours, the Lord God says, the nets yonder silly birds are caught in! I mean to snatch them away from your grasp, and set the birds free, those lives you have ensnared with your prophesying.✻ (Ezekiel 13, 20)

• Among its boughs the birds nested, the beasts in their travail sought its shade; proud nations a many under Assyria’s shelter grew. (Ezekiel 31, 6)