Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Note understand: Heb. hear
The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- bring a nation
- Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.
- Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 5:26–30; Jeremiah 5:15–17; Daniel 6:22, 23; Daniel 9:26; Habakkuk 1:6, 7; Luke 19:43, 44
- as the eagle
- Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Lamentations 4:19; Ezekiel 17:3, 12; Hosea 8:1; Matthew 24:28
- a nation whose
- Jeremiah 5:15; Ezekiel 3:6; 1 Corinthians 14:21