Habakkuk 1:8

Modern English Version

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than evening wolves. Their horsemen charge on; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like the eagle that hastens to eat.

Cross References

Job 9:26

They pass by like reed skiffs, like an eagle rushing upon its prey.

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines towards the west; they shall plunder the sons of the east together; they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

Jeremiah 4:13

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

Jeremiah 48:40

For thus says the Lord: Behold, he will fly as an eagle and spread his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Jeremiah 50:42

They will hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea; and they shall ride on horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the skies. They pursued us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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 its king and its officials, and led them to him in Babylon.

Ezekiel 17:3

and say, Thus says the Lord God: A great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took away the highest branch of the cedar.

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets. He shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your mouth! One like an eagle is on the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

Nahum 2:5

He remembers his officers as they stumble about on the road; they hurry on to the wall as the siege tower is set up.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will be gathered together.

Luke 17:37

They asked, “Where, Lord?” He replied, “Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.”

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,