Isaiah 30:16

New American Bible - revised edition

“No,” you said, “Upon horses we will flee.” Very well, you shall flee! “Upon swift steeds we will ride.” Very well, swift shall be your pursuers!

Cross References

2 Kings 25:5

But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army.

Job 39:11

Will you depend on him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?

Psalm 147:10

He takes no delight in the strength of horses, no pleasure in the runner’s stride.

Psalm 33:17

Useless is the horse for safety; despite its great strength, it cannot be saved.

Isaiah 2:7

Their land is full of silver and gold, there is no end to their treasures; Their land is full of horses, there is no end to their chariots.

Isaiah 31:1

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human beings, not God, their horses flesh, not spirit; When the Lord stretches forth his hand, the helper shall stumble, the one helped shall fall, and both of them shall perish together.

Jeremiah 39:4

When Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all his warriors saw this, they fled, leaving the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through a gate between the two walls. He went in the direction of the Arabah,

Jeremiah 4:13

See! like storm clouds he advances, like a whirlwind, his chariots; Swifter than eagles, his horses: “Woe to us! we are ruined.”

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee, nor the warrior escape: There up north, on the banks of the Euphrates they stumble and fall.

Jeremiah 52:7

the city walls were breached. All the soldiers fled and left the city by night through the gate between the two walls which was near the king’s garden. With the Chaldeans surrounding the city, they went in the direction of the Arabah.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky, In the mountains they were hot on our trail, they ambushed us in the wilderness.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said: Strike the capitals so that the threshold shakes! Break them off on the heads of them all! Those who are left I will slay with the sword. Not one shall get away, no survivor shall escape.

Micah 1:13

Harness steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; You are the beginning of sin for daughter Zion, For in you were found the crimes of Israel.

Habakkuk 1:8

Swifter than leopards are their horses, and faster than desert wolves. Their horses spring forward; they come from far away; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,