Deuteronomy 28:49

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.”

Psalm 81:5

He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:

Proverbs 30:19

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

Isaiah 33:19

You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.

Isaiah 39:3

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Isaiah 7:18

In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly which is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, 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: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Moab;

Jeremiah 49:22

Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle, and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs.”

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the vultures in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 11:9

And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.

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 her king and her princes and brought them to 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 Lebanon and took the top of the cedar;

Ezekiel 3:6

not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.

Daniel 7:4

The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand upon two feet like a man; and the mind of a man was given to it.

Daniel 9:26

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

Hosea 8:1

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

Numbers 24:24

But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall come to destruction.”

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

1 Corinthians 14:21

In the law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”