but people ¹  are born ²  to trouble, as surely as the sparks ³  fly ⁴  upward. ⁵ 

Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

Who are these who float along ¹  like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters? ² 

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

He ordered flies to come; ¹  gnats invaded their whole territory.

you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ¹  as well as frogs that overran their land. ² 

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, ¹  and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

I say, ¹  “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value ¹  will fly away. They will not bear children – they will not enjoy pregnancy – they will not even conceive! ² 

The Lord did so; a ¹  thick ²  swarm of flies came into ³  Pharaoh’s house and into the houses ⁴  of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined ⁵  because of the swarms of flies.

If you do not release ¹  my people, then I am going to send ²  swarms of flies ³  on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on. ⁴ 

You need not fear the terrors of the night, ¹  the arrow that flies by day,

One dead fly ¹  makes the perfumer’s ointment give off a rancid stench, ²  so a little folly can outweigh ³  much wisdom. ⁴ 

and the Lord did as Moses asked ¹  – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

At that time ¹  the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. ² 

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause ¹  does not come to rest. ² 

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms ¹  of living creatures and let birds fly ²  above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

When you gaze upon riches, ¹  they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! ² 

Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.” ¹