Habakkuk 1:8

A Conservative Version

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

Hosea 8:1

[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Ezekiel 17:3

and say, Thus says lord LORD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m

Deuteronomy 28:49

LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand,

Luke 17:37

And having answered, they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.

Matthew 24:28

For wherever the carcass may be, there the vultures will be gathered together.

Ezekiel 17:12

Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the rulers of it, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Job 9:26

They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Isaiah 11:14

And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they shall despoil the sons of the east. They shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the sons of Ammon shall obey them.

Jeremiah 48:40

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

Jeremiah 50:42

They lay hold on bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, each one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets. He shall kill thy people with the sword, and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground.

Nahum 2:5

He remembers his nobles. They stumble in their march. They make haste to the wall of it, and the mantelet is prepared.