Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Armies » Marched » With rapidity
Their horses [are] more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves [at] dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle [that is] swift to devour.
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
Armies » Called the » Wings of a nation
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
And he will sweep into Judah; he will overflow and he will flood up to [the] neck. He will reach, and {he will spread his wings out over your entire land}, God with us."
Eagle » Figurative
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions,
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and [how] I bore you on eagles' wings and I brought you to me.
[Put] to your lips [the] trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have {broken my covenant} and rebelled against my law.
Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots [are] like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated.
Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.
Yahweh will raise [up] against you a nation from far [off], from the end of the earth, [attacking] as the eagle swoops [down], {a nation whose language you will not understand},