Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Armies » Marched » With rapidity
And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
Armies » Called the » Wings of a nation
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
Eagle » Figurative
As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.
Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;