Lamentations 4:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁹ Those who chased us were swifter than eagles in the sky; they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Our persecutors are swifter Than the eagles of the heaven: They pursued us upon the mountains, They laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Our hunters were faster than airborne eagles. They chased us up the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ COPH. Our persecutors have been swifter than the eagles of the sky. They have been pursuing us above the mountains; they have lain in wait for us in the desert.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 16:16

‘I am about to send for many fishermen’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

Jeremiah 4:13

Look, he advances like clouds; his chariots are like a storm. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Lamentations 1:13

He sent fire from on high  into my bones; he made it descend.  , He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, ill all day long.

Hosea 8:1

Put the ram’s horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the  Lord, because they transgress my covenant and rebel against my law.

Hosea 8:3

Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

Leviticus 26:36

‘I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

Amos 2:14

Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not maintain his strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter  than leopards and fiercer  than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,  to swoop down on you like an eagle,  a nation whose language you won’t understand,