Habakkuk 1:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more menacing than wolves at dusk; their horses charge. Their horsemen come from far away; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Cross References

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 backs of the Philistines in the west; together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

Jeremiah 4:13

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

Jeremiah 48:40

For thus says the Lord: Look, he shall swoop down like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;

Jeremiah 5:6

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

Jeremiah 50:42

They wield bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a warrior for battle, against you, O daughter 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.

Ezekiel 17:12

Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and its officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

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 the Lebanon. He took the top of the cedar,

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he shall trample all your streets. He shall put your people to the sword, and your strong pillars shall fall to the ground.

Hosea 8:1

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

Nahum 2:5

He calls his officers; they stumble as they come forward; they hasten to the wall, and the screen is set up.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather.

Luke 17:37

Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the eagles will gather.”

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,