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

…of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

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

Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

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

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

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.

You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

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

I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’

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

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

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.

Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”