11 Bible Verses about Ostriches
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Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind,
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,
Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust, And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.read more.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern; Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
The beast of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of jackals, and a court for ostriches.
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
From Thematic Bible
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Ostriches
Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Ostriches » Illustrative » Of the unnatural cruelty of the jews in their calamities
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Ostriches » Unclean and unfit for food
And these are they which you shall hold in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
Ostriches » Described as » Cruel to her young
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;
Ostriches » Described as » Void of wisdom
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Ostriches » Described as » Imprudent
And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.
Ostriches » Described as » Rapid in movement
Ostriches » Furnished with wings and feathers
Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Ostriches » Lays her eggs in the sand
Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"
Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after its kind,
And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,
Ostriches » The cry of
Therefore I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
