Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Bible References
As the eagle
Job 39:27
Doth the Eagle mount up, and make his nest on high, at thy commandment?
2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan lovely and pleasant in their lives, were in their deaths not divided; men swifter than Eagles and stronger than Lions.
Proverbs 23:5
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
Jeremiah 4:13
For lo, he cometh down like as a cloud, and his chariots are like a stormy wind: his horsemen are swifter than the Eagle. Woe unto us, for we are destroyed.
Lamentations 4:19
{Kuf} Our persecutors are swifter than the Eagles of the air, they followed upon us over the mountains, and laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than the cats of the mountain, and bite sorer than the wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come by great heaps from far, they flee hastily to devour as the Eagle.