Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.
New American Standard Bible
For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, one will
And
King James Version
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Holman Bible
For this is what the Lord says:
and spread his wings against Moab.
International Standard Version
For this is what the LORD says: "Look, like an eagle one will fly swiftly and spread his wings against Moab.
A Conservative Version
For thus says LORD: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Amplified
For thus says the Lord:
And spread out his wings against Moab.
Bible in Basic English
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
Julia Smith Translation
For thus said Jehovah: Behold, as an eagle he shall fly, and he spread his wings to Moab.
King James 2000
For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle. and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
Modern King James verseion
For so says Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly like an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, the enemy shall come flying as an Eagle, and spread his wings upon Moab.
NET Bible
For the Lord says, "Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab.
New Heart English Bible
For thus says the LORD: 'Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
The Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, Lo! as an eagle, shall one dart along, - And shall spread out his wings towards Moab.
Webster
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Youngs Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: Lo, as an eagle he doth flee, And hath spread his wings unto Moab.
Themes
Armies » Marched » With rapidity
Armies » Called the » Wings of a nation
Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 48:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Moab
39 They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to all that are round about him. 40 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab. 41 Kerijoth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49
Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;
Isaiah 8:8
and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
Jeremiah 49:22
Behold, he shall come up, and fly as an eagle, and spread forth his wings against Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Ezekiel 17:3
and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings, long-pinioned, full of feathers, which was of divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar.
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He cometh as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Daniel 7:4
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till its wings were plucked; and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Habakkuk 1:8
And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.