Quotes about Dove
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
- Genesis 8:8
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
- Genesis 8:9
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- Genesis 8:10
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
- Genesis 8:11
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
- Genesis 8:12
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
- Psalm 55:6
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
- Psalm 68:13
O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
- Song of Solomon 2:14
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- Song of Solomon 5:2
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- Song of Solomon 6:9
Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- Jeremiah 48:28
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- Hosea 7:11