100 Bible Verses about Aurochs

Isaiah 34:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

Deuteronomy 33:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Numbers 23:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes

God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Psalm 22:21 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!

Psalm 92:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil.

Psalm 29:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

Numbers 24:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.

Job 39:9-10 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Job 39:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?

Isaiah 34:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird settles and finds for herself a resting place.

Isaiah 13:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.

Job 40:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

Job 39:9-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

Jeremiah 8:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 59:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.

Isaiah 14:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Micah 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Jeremiah 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Isaiah 43:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,

Isaiah 27:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 11:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

Psalm 148:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps,

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Job 39:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, ...

Deuteronomy 32:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.

Deuteronomy 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Deuteronomy 8:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

Genesis 12:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Revelation 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

John 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!”

Luke 19:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Luke 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Mark 14:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

Mark 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

Mark 9:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.

Matthew 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Zephaniah 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.

Ezekiel 32:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Ezekiel 29:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’

Ezekiel 27:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.

Ezekiel 27:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.

Ezekiel 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

Lamentations 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 51:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 49:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her.”

Jeremiah 48:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

Jeremiah 31:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.

Jeremiah 10:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

Jeremiah 9:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.

Isaiah 60:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.

Isaiah 51:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 51:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

Isaiah 38:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

Isaiah 35:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

Isaiah 34:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 34:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 34:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter. Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. ...

Isaiah 30:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Isaiah 30:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

Isaiah 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you

Isaiah 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

Isaiah 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

Isaiah 13:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.

Song of Solomon 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Proverbs 30:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.

Proverbs 30:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

Proverbs 30:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

Proverbs 30:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

Proverbs 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Psalm 103:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Psalm 91:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

Psalm 90:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Psalm 74:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Psalm 73:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

Psalm 73:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 28:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

Psalm 21:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.

Job 41:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Job 41:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? ...

Job 40:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.

Job 39:27-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away. His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”

Job 39:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

Job 39:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

Job 38:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

Job 38:1-41:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? ...

Job 30:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Job 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.

Job 20:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

Job 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.

Job 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

2 Chronicles 11:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.

2 Chronicles 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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