Fly

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

…and the LORD did as Moses requested. He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not one fly remained.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.