Jeremiah 48:40

World English Bible (2000)

For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:49 : 49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
  • Isa 8:8 : 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
  • Jer 49:22 : 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  • Ezek 17:3 : 3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
  • Hos 8:1 : 1 "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
  • Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
  • Dan 7:4 : 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
  • Lam 4:19 : 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
  • Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the 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%

    8 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

    9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

  • Jer 48:38-39
    2 verses
    80%

    38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.

    39 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

  • Jer 48:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

    29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

  • Jer 49:22
    78%

    22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Jer 48:41-47
    7 verses
    77%

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

    43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.

    44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

    45 Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

    46 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.

    47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

  • Isa 16:2
    76%

    2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

  • Jer 48:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?

    20 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

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

    25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.

    26 Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    74%

    1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

    2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.

    3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

    4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

    5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:31
    74%

    31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.

  • Jer 48:13-16
    4 verses
    74%

    13 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

    14 How do you say, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?

    15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

    16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

  • Deut 32:11
    74%

    11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

  • Jer 49:16
    73%

    16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

  • Isa 25:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

    11 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

  • Isa 31:5
    73%

    5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."

  • Isa 15:8
    72%

    8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

  • Jer 48:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

  • Isa 15:5
    72%

    5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Zeph 2:9
    71%

    9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

  • Amos 2:2
    71%

    2 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

  • Isa 11:14
    71%

    14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

  • Isa 16:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

    13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

  • Obad 1:4
    71%

    4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 3:18
    71%

    18 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

  • Ezek 25:11
    70%

    11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Deut 28:49
    70%

    49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;

  • Ezek 25:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;

    9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,