Ostriches
3 lines · 12 passages
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General scriptures concerning
Job 39:13–18; Lam 4:3; Isa 13:21; 34:13; 43:20
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. 18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
Job 39:133 Even 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.
Lamentations 4:321 But 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 13:2113 And 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 34:1320 The 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.
Isaiah 43:20 -
The cry of
Mic 1:8
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah 1:8 -
In A. V. the word “owl” occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word “ostrich,”
Lev 11:16; Deut 14:15; Job 30:29; Isa 43:20; Jer 50:39; Mic 1:8
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus 11:1615 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy 14:1529 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job 30:2920 The 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.
Isaiah 43:2039 Therefore 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.
Jeremiah 50:398 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah 1:8
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
