קֵן

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

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.

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.’”

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

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.

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!