Lamentations 4:19

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Habakkuk 1:8

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.

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!

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.

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,

Amos 2:14

Flight will perish from the swift, the strong will not retain his strength, nor will the warrior save his life.

Leviticus 26:36

And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Lamentations 1:13

From on high He has sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them; He has spread a net for my feet; He turned me back; He has made me desolate and faint all the day long.

Hosea 8:3

Israel has cast off the good; the enemy will pursue him.