Nest

Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.

If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade.”