Habakkuk 1:8

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⁸^(A)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than ^(B)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    ^(C)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

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Jeremiah 4:13

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¹³Behold, he comes up like clouds;
^(A)his chariots like the whirlwind;
his horses are ^(B)swifter than eagles—
woe to us, ^(C)for we are ruined!

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Zephaniah 3:3

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³^(A)Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are ^(B)evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.

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Hosea 8:1

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Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

8 Set ^(A)the trumpet to your lips!
One ^(B)like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because ^(C)they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.

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Ezekiel 17:3

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³say, Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)A great eagle ^(B)with great wings and long pinions, ^(C)rich in plumage of many colors, came ^(D)to Lebanon ^(E)and took the top of the cedar.

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Jeremiah 5:6

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⁶Therefore ^(A)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
    a ^(B)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^(C)A leopard is watching their cities;
    everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
    their ^(D)apostasies are great.

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Deuteronomy 28:49

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⁴⁹^(A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^(B)swooping down like the eagle, a nation ^(C)whose language you do not understand,

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Luke 17:37

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³⁷And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, ^(A)“Where the corpse^[a] is, there the vultures^[b] will gather.”

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Luke 17:37 Greek body
Luke 17:37 Or eagles

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Matthew 24:28

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²⁸^(A)Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

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Ezekiel 17:12

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¹²“Say now to ^(A)the rebellious house, ^(B)Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, ^(C)the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

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Lamentations 4:19

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¹⁹Our pursuers were ^(A)swifter
than the eagles in the heavens;
they chased us on the mountains;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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Isaiah 5:26-28

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²⁶He will ^(A)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and ^(B)whistle for them ^(C)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
²⁷^(D)None is weary, none stumbles,
    none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
    not a sandal strap broken;
²⁸^(E)their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels ^(F)like the whirlwind.