Jeremiah 48:40

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For this is what the LORD says: Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab.

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  • Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand.
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 It will sweep into Judah, flooding and passing through; it will reach up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the entire breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Jer 49:22 : 22 Behold, an eagle will come up and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. On that day, the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
  • Ezek 17:3 : 3 Say this: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers, and full of colorful plumage came to Lebanon and took the top of a cedar tree.
  • Hos 8:1 : 1 Set the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle, disaster comes against the house of the LORD, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
  • Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour.
  • Dan 7:4 : 4 The first was like a lion and had wings like an eagle. I watched until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground to stand on two feet like a man, and a human heart was given to it.
  • Lam 4:19 : 19 Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
  • Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots are like a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 48:8-9
    2 verses
    83%

    8The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape. The valley will perish, and the plateau will be destroyed, for the LORD has spoken.

    9Give Moab wings so she may fly away, for her cities will become desolate, with no one living in them.

  • Jer 48:38-39
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    80%

    38On every rooftop of Moab and in its public squares, there is nothing but lamentation. For I have broken Moab like a jar no one wants, declares the LORD.

    39How shattered Moab is! Cry out! How Moab has turned his back in shame. So Moab will become a ridicule and a horror to all his neighbors.

  • Jer 48:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    28Abandon your cities and dwell among the rocks, O inhabitants of Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest in the sides of the cave's opening.

    29We have heard of Moab's pride—so very proud—his arrogance, pride, conceit, and the haughtiness of his heart.

  • Jer 49:22
    78%

    22Behold, an eagle will come up and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. On that day, the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

  • Jer 48:41-47
    7 verses
    77%

    41The cities are captured, and the strongholds are seized. On that day, the heart of Moab's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

    42Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he exalted himself against the LORD.

    43Terror, pit, and snare await you, O inhabitant of Moab, declares the LORD.

    44The one who flees from the terror will fall into the pit, and the one climbing out of the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.

    45In the shadow of Heshbon, the fugitives stand helpless, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. It devours the corner of Moab and the crown of the noisy boasters.

    46Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh are destroyed. Your sons have been taken into exile, and your daughters into captivity.

    47Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

  • Isa 16:2
    76%

    2Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

  • Jer 48:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19Stand by the road and watch, inhabitant of Aroer. Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, 'What has happened?'

    20Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. Wail and cry out! Proclaim at the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24to Kerioth, to Bozrah, and to all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and her arm is broken, declares the LORD.

    26Make her drunk, for she has magnified herself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in her vomit and become an object of ridicule.

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    74%

    1This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says concerning Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated! Kiriathaim is disgraced and captured; the mighty stronghold is humbled and shattered.

    2The glory of Moab is no more! In Heshbon, a plan for disaster was made against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' Even Madmen will be silenced; the sword will follow you.

    3A cry of distress comes from Horonaim: great destruction and devastation!

    4Moab is broken! A cry is heard; even her young ones make their distress known.

    5For at the ascent of Luhith, weeping goes with the steps; as they descend to Horonaim, cries of destruction are heard from the enemy.

  • Jer 48:31
    74%

    31Therefore, I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab. For the men of Kir-heres, I will mourn.

  • Jer 48:13-16
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    13Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

    14How can you say, 'We are warriors, men mighty in battle'?

    15Moab is devastated, and its towns have been destroyed! The best of its young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    16The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and her disaster is rushing swiftly.

  • Deut 32:11
    74%

    11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings, took him, and carried him on His pinions.

  • Jer 49:16
    73%

    16The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

  • Isa 25:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in a manure pit.

    11They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. But God will bring down their pride despite the skill of their hands.

  • Isa 31:5
    73%

    5Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem; He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

  • Isa 15:8
    72%

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab. Its wailing reaches Eglaim, and its lamentation goes all the way to Beer Elim.

  • Jer 48:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35I will put an end in Moab to the one who sacrifices on the high places and burns incense to his gods, declares the LORD.

    36Therefore, my heart moans for Moab like the sound of flutes; it moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres, because their accumulated wealth has perished.

  • Isa 15:5
    72%

    5My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, like a three-year-old heifer. They go up weeping by the ascent of Luhith. On the way to Horonaim, they raise a cry of destruction.

  • Zeph 2:9
    71%

    9Therefore, as surely as I live—declares the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel—Moab will become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual ruin. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will inherit their land.

  • Amos 2:2
    71%

    2'So I will send fire upon Moab, and it will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will die in great tumult, with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.'

  • Isa 11:14
    71%

    14Together they will swoop down on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west; they will plunder the people of the east. They will lay hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

  • Isa 16:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12When Moab appears, weary on the high places, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

    13This is the word the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

  • Obad 1:4
    71%

    4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 3:18
    71%

    18This is an easy thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also give Moab into your hands.

  • Ezek 25:11
    70%

    11I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Deut 28:49
    70%

    49The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand.

  • Ezek 25:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Look! The house of Judah is like all the other nations,'

    9therefore, I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning with its frontier cities—the pride of the land—Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.