You may eat any clean bird.

who teaches us ¹  more than ²  the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ¹ 

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten. ¹ 

For ¹  it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

I keep track of ¹  every bird in the hills, and the insects ²  of the field are mine.

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ¹ 

The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. ¹ 

I looked and saw that there were no more people, ¹  and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

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 

“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours ¹  is detestable to you.

But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family ¹  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones ¹  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

“But now, ask the animals and they ²  will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; ¹  the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

At the fords of the Arnon ¹  the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest. ² 

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, ¹  their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. ²  That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. ³ 

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. ¹  There will not be any survivors to scare them away.