Lamentations 4:19

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:16

Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.

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.”

Lamentations 1:13

From on high he hurled fire down into my very bones; He spread out a net for my feet, and turned me back. He has left me desolate, in misery all day long.

Hosea 8:1

Put the trumpet to your lips! One like an eagle is over the house of the Lord! Because they have violated my covenant, and rebelled against my law,

Hosea 8:3

But Israel has rejected what is good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Leviticus 26:36

Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;

Amos 2:14

Flight shall elude the swift, and the strong shall not retain strength; The warrior shall not save his life,

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 28:49

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,