Habakkuk 1:8

Tree of Life Version

Its horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Its horsemen come galloping. Its horsemen are coming from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to eat.

Cross References

Job 9:26

They slip by like reed boats, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Isaiah 11:14

They will swoop down on the Philistine slope to the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east— laying their hand on Edom and Moab, the children of Ammon obeying them.

Jeremiah 4:13

See, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like whirlwinds. His horses are swifter than eagles— “Oy ! We are ruined!”

Jeremiah 48:40

For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them. A desert wolf will ravage them. A leopard watches over their cities. Everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces, For their rebellion is great, their backslidings frequent.

Jeremiah 50:42

They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel, with no compassion. Their voice roars like the sea, as they ride on horses, arranged as warriors for battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

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, took the king and the princes and brought them with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 17:3

Say, thus says Adonai Elohim: “A great eagle with large wings and broad wings, full of feathers which had varied colors, came to Lebanon and took hold of the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 26:11

With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will come down to the ground.

Hosea 8:1

“Put a shofar to your mouth! Like a vulture he comes against the house of Adonai. For they overstepped My covenant and transgressed My Torah.

Nahum 2:5

The chariots dash madly about through the streets, rushing to and fro in the plazas, their appearance is like torches, darting like flashes of lightning.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.

Matthew 24:28

For wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

Luke 17:37

“Where, Lord?” they replied. And He said to them, “Where there is a corpse, there also will the vultures be gathered.”

Deuteronomy 28:49

“Adonai will raise up a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, just as the eagle swoops down—a nation whose language you will not understand,