100 Bible Verses about Birds

Here are 100 Bible verses about birds, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

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Matthew 6:26 KJV

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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Psalm 104:12 KJV

¹² By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

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Matthew 6:25-34 KJV

²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? ²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? ²⁷ Which of you by taking …

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Genesis 1:20 KJV

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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Psalm 50:11 KJV

¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

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Isaiah 40:31 KJV

³¹ But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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Matthew 10:29 KJV

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

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Luke 12:24 KJV

²⁴ Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

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Matthew 13:32 KJV

³² Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

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Job 38:41 KJV

⁴¹ Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

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Proverbs 27:8 KJV

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

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Psalm 147:9 KJV

⁹ He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

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Matthew 10:16 KJV

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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Leviticus 11:13-20 KJV

¹³ And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ¹⁴ And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; ¹⁵ Every raven after his kind; ¹⁶ And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, …

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Matthew 8:20 KJV

²⁰ And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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Genesis 1:21 KJV

²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Song of Solomon 2:12 KJV

¹² The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

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Psalm 91:1-16 KJV

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ⁴ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his …

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Jeremiah 5:27 KJV

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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Psalm 104:17 KJV

¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

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Matthew 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

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Jeremiah 8:7 KJV

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

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Genesis 1:26 KJV

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Genesis 9:2 KJV

² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

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Genesis 1:30 KJV

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

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Psalm 84:3 KJV

³ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

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James 3:7 KJV

⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

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Matthew 10:29-31 KJV

²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹ Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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1 Corinthians 15:39 KJV

³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

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Psalm 84:1-4 KJV

¹ How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! ² My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. ³ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. ⁴ Blessed are they that dwell in …

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Ezekiel 31:6 KJV

⁶ All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

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Genesis 1:28 KJV

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Luke 12:6 KJV

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

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Matthew 13:4 KJV

⁴ And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

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Isaiah 31:5 KJV

⁵ As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

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Proverbs 1:17 KJV

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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Job 28:7 KJV

⁷ There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:

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Genesis 2:19 KJV

¹⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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1 Kings 4:33 KJV

³³ And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

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Job 35:11 KJV

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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Leviticus 11:13 KJV

¹³ And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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Genesis 8:20 KJV

²⁰ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Genesis 8:8 KJV

⁸ Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

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Job 39:27 KJV

²⁷ Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

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Leviticus 14:4 KJV

⁴ Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

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Psalm 124:7 KJV

⁷ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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Leviticus 11:16 KJV

¹⁶ And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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Ecclesiastes 9:12 KJV

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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Isaiah 34:11 KJV

¹¹ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

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Job 12:7 KJV

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

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Deuteronomy 22:6-7 KJV

⁶ If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: ⁷ But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

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Matthew 23:37 KJV

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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Job 39:26 KJV

²⁶ Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

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Deuteronomy 22:6 KJV

⁶ If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

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Genesis 40:19 KJV

¹⁹ Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Psalm 68:13 KJV

¹³ Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

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Hosea 9:11 KJV

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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Ecclesiastes 12:4 KJV

⁴ And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

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Daniel 4:33 KJV

³³ The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

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Isaiah 38:14 KJV

¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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Leviticus 11:19 KJV

¹⁹ And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

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Romans 1:23 KJV

²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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Jeremiah 12:9 KJV

⁹ Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

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Psalm 8:8 KJV

⁸ The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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Leviticus 1:14 KJV

¹⁴ And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

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Genesis 15:11 KJV

¹¹ And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

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Matthew 26:34 KJV

³⁴ Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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Psalm 148:10 KJV

¹⁰ Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

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Leviticus 11:17 KJV

¹⁷ And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

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Isaiah 16:2 KJV

² For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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Psalm 102:6 KJV

⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

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Job 39:13 KJV

¹³ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

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Leviticus 11:15 KJV

¹⁵ Every raven after his kind;

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Genesis 2:19-20 KJV

¹⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. ²⁰ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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Isaiah 46:11 KJV

¹¹ Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

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Job 30:29 KJV

²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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1 Samuel 26:20 KJV

²⁰ Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

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Leviticus 12:6 KJV

⁶ And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

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Jeremiah 17:11 KJV

¹¹ As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

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Revelation 18:2 KJV

² And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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Deuteronomy 14:13 KJV

¹³ And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

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Genesis 1:20-30 KJV

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. ²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be …

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Ezekiel 39:4 KJV

⁴ Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

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Numbers 11:31-32 KJV

³¹ And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. ³² And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten …

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Genesis 6:7 KJV

⁷ And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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Jeremiah 4:25 KJV

²⁵ I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

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Isaiah 34:15 KJV

¹⁵ There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

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Job 39:18 KJV

¹⁸ What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

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Leviticus 11:14 KJV

¹⁴ And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

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Matthew 13:19 KJV

¹⁹ When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

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Jeremiah 12:4 KJV

⁴ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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Genesis 9:1-29 KJV

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. ³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the …

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Genesis 8:7 KJV

⁷ And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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Jeremiah 48:28 KJV

²⁸ O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

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Job 39:26-30 KJV

²⁶ Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? ²⁷ Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? ²⁸ She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. ²⁹ From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. ³⁰ Her young ones also suck up …

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Deuteronomy 14:11 KJV

¹¹ Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

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Leviticus 14:22 KJV

²² And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

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Daniel 2:38 KJV

³⁸ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

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Psalm 55:6 KJV

⁶ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

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Genesis 8:9 KJV

⁹ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

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