Deuteronomy 28:49
New King James Version
49 (A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (B)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
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Jeremiah 4:6-13
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6 Set up the [a]standard toward Zion.
Take refuge! Do not delay!
For I will bring disaster from the (A)north,
And great destruction.”
7 (B)The lion has come up from his thicket,
And (C)the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
(D)To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.
8 For this, (E)clothe yourself with sackcloth,
Lament and wail.
For the fierce anger of the Lord
Has not turned back from us.
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord,
“That the heart of the king shall perish,
And the heart of the princes;
The priests shall be astonished,
And the prophets shall wonder.”
10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!
(F)Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
(G)Saying, ‘You shall have peace,’
Whereas the sword reaches to the [b]heart.”
11 At that time it will be said
To this people and to Jerusalem,
(H)“A dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wilderness
Toward the daughter of My people—
Not to fan or to cleanse—
12 A wind too strong for these will come for Me;
Now (I)I will also speak judgment against them.”
13 “Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And (J)his chariots like a whirlwind.
(K)His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:6 banner
- Jeremiah 4:10 Lit. soul
Jeremiah 48:40-42
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40 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (A)one shall fly like an eagle,
And (B)spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken,
And the strongholds are surprised;
(C)The mighty men’s hearts in Moab on that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed (D)as a people,
Because he exalted himself against the Lord.
Jeremiah 49:20-22
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20 (A)Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall [a]draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
21 (B)The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
22 Behold, (C)He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 49:20 Or drag them away
Lamentations 4:11-19
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11 The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
(A)He has poured out His fierce anger.
(B)He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.
12 The kings of the earth,
And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed
That the adversary and the enemy
Could (C)enter the gates of Jerusalem—
13 (D)Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
(E)Who shed in her midst
The blood of the just.
14 They wandered blind in the streets;
(F)They have defiled themselves with blood,
(G)So that no one would touch their garments.
15 They cried out to them,
“Go away, (H)unclean!
Go away, go away,
Do not touch us!”
When they fled and wandered,
Those among the nations said,
“They shall no longer dwell here.”
16 The [a]face of the Lord scattered them;
He no longer regards them.
(I)The people do not respect the priests
Nor show favor to the elders.
17 Still (J)our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.
18 (K)They [b]tracked our steps
So that we could not walk in our streets.
(L)Our end was near;
Our days were over,
For our end had come.
19 Our pursuers were (M)swifter
Than the eagles of the heavens.
They pursued us on the mountains
And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:16 Tg. anger
- Lamentations 4:18 Lit. hunted
Habakkuk 1:6-17
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6 For indeed I am (A)raising up the Chaldeans,
A bitter and hasty (B)nation
Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful;
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are (C)swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [a]chargers [b]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the (D)eagle that hastens to eat.
9 “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings,
And princes are scorned by them.
They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
11 Then his [c]mind changes, and he transgresses;
He commits offense,
(E)Ascribing this power to his god.”
The Prophet’s Second Question
12 Are You not (F)from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O Lord, (G)You have appointed them for judgment;
O Rock, You have marked them for (H)correction.
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (I)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [d]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about
- Habakkuk 1:11 Lit. spirit or wind
- Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat
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