For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh says: “Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
- BSB For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
- NKJV For thus says the Lord: “Behold, one shall fly like an eagle, And spread his wings over Moab.
- NASB ¶For this is what the Lord says: “Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.
- NLT This is what the Lord says: “Look! The enemy swoops down like an eagle, spreading his wings over Moab.
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The LORD declares an enemy will swoop down like an eagle, spreading its wings against Moab.
Overview
The invader is pictured as a swift, predatory eagle descending on its prey. The image conveys the speed and inescapability of the coming attack. This sudden, overwhelming approach of judgment reminds readers that the day of reckoning comes swiftly, calling all to take refuge in God before it falls.
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- Isa 8:8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
- Jer 49:22Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Deut 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
- Hos 8:1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
- Ezek 17:3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
- Jer 4:13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- Hab 1:8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
- Dan 7:4The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
- Lam 4:19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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