Habakkuk 1:8

English Standard Version 2016

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Ezekiel 17:3

say, Thus says the Lord God: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

Luke 17:37

And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

Ezekiel 17:12

“Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Job 9:26

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

Jeremiah 48:40

For thus says the Lord: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;

Jeremiah 50:42

They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride on horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

Nahum 2:5

He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.