Ostriches

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Bible verses about “Ostriches”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Job 39:13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
• Job 39:14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
• Job 39:15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
• Job 39:16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
• Job 39:17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
• Job 39:18What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
• Lamentations 4:3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
• Isaiah 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
• Isaiah 34:13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Isaiah 43:20The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
• Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
• Leviticus 11:16And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
• Deuteronomy 14:15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
• Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
• Jeremiah 50:39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.