40 For thus says the Lord:

“Behold, (A)one shall fly like an eagle,
And (B)spread his wings over Moab.

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He will pass through Judah,
He will overflow and pass over,
(A)He will reach up to the neck;
And the stretching out of his wings
Will [a]fill the breadth of Your land, O (B)Immanuel.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:8 Lit. be the fullness of
  2. Isaiah 8:8 Lit. God-With-Us

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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22 Behold, (A)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.

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The Apostasy of Israel

Set the [a]trumpet to your mouth!
He shall come (A)like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:1 ram’s horn, Heb. shophar

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

(A)“A great eagle with large wings and long pinions,
Full of feathers of various colors,
Came to Lebanon
And (B)took from the cedar the highest branch.

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Their horses also are (A)swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [a]chargers [b]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the (B)eagle that hastens to eat.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
  2. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about

The first was (A)like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a (B)man’s heart was given to it.

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19 Our pursuers were (A)swifter
Than the eagles of the heavens.
They pursued us on the mountains
And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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13 “Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And (A)his chariots like a whirlwind.
(B)His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”

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