Job 9:26
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26 They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.(A)
Habakkuk 1:8
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8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
more menacing than wolves at dusk;
their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
they fly like an eagle swift to devour.(A)
Isaiah 18:2
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2 sending ambassadors by the Nile
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty[a] and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.(A)
Footnotes
- 18.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 4:19
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19 Our pursuers were swifter
than the eagles in the heavens;
they chased us on the mountains;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.(A)
Jeremiah 4:13
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13 Look! He comes up like clouds,
his chariots like the whirlwind;
his horses are swifter than eagles—
woe to us, for we are ruined!(A)
Proverbs 23:5
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5 When your eyes light upon it, it is gone,
for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Job 39:27-30
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27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes its nest on high?(A)
28 It lives on the rock and makes its home
in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29 From there it spies the prey;
its eyes see it from far away.(B)
30 Its young ones suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there it is.”(C)
2 Samuel 1:23
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23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!
In life and in death they were not divided;
they were swifter than eagles;
they were stronger than lions.(A)
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