Ezekiel 17:3

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Jeremiah 24:1

The Lord showed me these things: I saw two baskets of figs arranged in front of the temple {\cf2\super [196]} of the Lord. (I saw this vision after Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, took Jeconiah {\cf2\super [197]} as a prisoner. Jeconiah was the son of King Jehoiakim. Jeconiah and his important officials were taken away from Jerusalem. They were taken to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also took away all the carpenters and metal-workers of Judah.)

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! The enemy rises up like a cloud.\par His chariots {\cf2\super [25]} look like a wind storm.\par His horses are faster than eagles.\par It will be very bad for us!\par We are ruined!\par

Jeremiah 48:40

The Lord says, “Look!\par An eagle is diving down from the sky.\par It is spreading its wings over Moab.\par

Jeremiah 49:16

Edom, you scared other nations.\par So you thought you were important.\par But your pride has fooled you.\par You live in those caves, high on the cliff.\par Your home is high in the hills.\par But even if you build your home\par as high as an eagle’s nest,\par I will bring you down from there.”\par The Lord said these things.\par

Lamentations 4:19

The men that chased us\par were faster than eagles in the sky.\par Those men chased us into the mountains.\par They hid in the desert to catch us.\par

Ezekiel 17:4

The eagle broke the top out of the big cedar tree (Lebanon) and brought it to Canaan.\par The eagle set down the branch in the town of businessmen.\par

Ezekiel 17:7

Then another eagle with big wings\par saw the grapevine.\par The eagle had many feathers.\par The grapevine wanted this new eagle\par to care for it.\par So it made its roots grow toward this eagle.\par Its branches stretched toward this eagle.\par The branches grew away from the field\par that it was planted in.\par The grapevine wanted the new eagle\par to water it.\par

Ezekiel 31:3

Assyria was a cedar tree in Lebanon\par With beautiful branches,\par With forest shade,\par And very tall.\par Its top was among the clouds!\par

Daniel 2:38

God has given you control and you rule over people and over the wild animals and over the birds. Wherever they live, God has made you ruler over them all. King Nebuchadnezzar, you are that head of gold on the statue. {\cf2\super [16]}

Daniel 4:22

King, you are that tree! You have become great and powerful. You are like the tall tree that touched the sky—and your power reaches to the far parts of the earth.

Daniel 7:4

“The first animal looked like a lion, and it had wings like an eagle. I watched this animal. Then its wings were torn off. It was lifted from the ground so that it stood up on two feet like a man. And it was given the heart (mind) of a man.

Hosea 8:1

“Put the trumpet to your lips \{and give the warning\}. Be like an eagle over the Lord’s house. {\cf2\super [76]} The Israelites have broken my Agreement. They have not obeyed my law.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses will be faster than leopards {\cf2\super [2]} and meaner than wolves {\cf2\super [3]} at sunset. Their horse soldiers will come from faraway places. They will attack their enemies quickly, like a hungry eagle swooping down from the sky.

Matthew 24:28

\{My coming will be clear, the same as\} any time you see vultures {\cf2\super [376]} gathering, you know there is a dead body.

Matthew 4:24

The news about Jesus spread all over Syria. And people brought all the sick people to Jesus. These sick people were suffering from different kinds of diseases and pain. Some people were suffering with very bad pain, some people had demons {\cf2\super [55]} inside them, some people were epileptics, {\cf2\super [56]} and some people were paralyzed (crippled). Jesus healed all these people.

Deuteronomy 28:49

“The Lord will bring a nation from far away to fight you. You will not understand their language. They will come quickly, like an eagle coming down from the sky.