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God said, “Let the waters swarm with living things, and let birds fly above the earth up in the dome of the sky.”
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Any flying insect that walks on four feet is detestable to you,
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but you can eat four-footed flying insects that have jointed legs above their feet with which they hop on the ground.
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But every other flying insect that has four feet is detestable to you.
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Shafts of fire shoot from his mouth; like fiery sparks they fly out.
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Then we will rejoice that you’ve been helped. We will fly our flags in the name of our God. Let the Lord fulfill all your requests!
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I say to myself, I wish I had wings like a dove! I’d fly away and rest.
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The clouds poured water, the skies cracked thunder; your arrows were flying all around!
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We live at best to be seventy years old, maybe eighty, if we’re strong. But their duration brings hard work and trouble because they go by so quickly. And then we fly off.
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Don’t be afraid of terrors at night, arrows that fly in daylight,
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If I could fly on the wings of dawn, stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—
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Do the same, you animals—wild or tame— you creatures that creep along and you birds that fly!
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When your eyes fly to wealth it is gone; it grows wings like an eagle and flies heavenward.
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Like a darting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse never arrives.
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An oracle about the beasts in the arid southern plain. Through a land of distress and danger, lioness and roaring lion, viper and flying serpent, they will carry their wealth on donkeys’ shoulders and their treasures on camels’ humps to a people who won’t profit,
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Like birds flying aloft, so the Lord of heavenly forces will shield Jerusalem: shielding and saving, sparing and rescuing.
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but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will fly up on wings like eagles; they will run and not be tired; they will walk and not be weary.
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Who are these who fly like a cloud, like doves to their shelters?
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Give wings to Moab, and it would fly away because its towns lie in ruins, with no one left in them.
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Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
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His horses are faster than leopards; they are quicker than wolves of the evening. His horsemen charge forward; his horsemen come from far away. They fly in to devour, swiftly, like an eagle.
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Sixth night vision
I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.
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And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”
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Then I looked and I heard an eagle flying high overhead. It said with a loud voice, “Horror, horror, oh! The horror for those who live on earth because of the blasts of the remaining trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
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But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she could fly to her place in the desert. There she would be taken care of—out of the snake’s reach—for a time and times and half a time.