Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 48:40
40For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 48:40 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thus saith the Lord; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
- New International Version (NIV)This is what the Lord says: “Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For thus says the Lord: "Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;
- New King James Version (NKJV)For thus says the Lord: “Behold, one shall fly like an eagle, And spread his wings over Moab.
Context of Jeremiah 48:40
38On all the housetops of Moab and in its squares— lamentation everywhere! For I have broken Moab like a jar In which no one delights” —it is a declaration of Adonai— 39“‘How shattered it is!’ they wailed! ‘How Moab turned his back in shame!’ So Moab will become a laughingstock and a horror to all around him.” For thus says Adonai: “Behold, he will swoop down like a vulture and spread out his wings against Moab. 41The towns are captured, the strongholds seized. The hearts of Moab’s warriors in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor. 42Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he boasted against Adonai.
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:40 word by word
כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה כַנֶּ֖שֶׁר יִדְאֶ֑ה וּפָרַ֥שׂ כְּנָפָ֖יו אֶל־מוֹאָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:40
- Jeremiah 4:13See, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like whirlwinds. His horses are swifter than eagles— “Oy ! We are ruined!”
- 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,
- Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 17:3Say, 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.
- Daniel 7:4“The first was like a lion with eagle’s wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off and it was lifted off the ground. It was made to stand upon two feet like a man, and the heart of a human was given to it.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 49:22Behold, he will mount up and swoop down like an eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The hearts of Edom’s warriors in that day will be like a woman’s heart in her pangs.
- Isaiah 8:8Then it will sweep through Judah, overflow as it passes through, reaching even to the neck! So the spread of its wings will be the full breadth of your land! Immanuel!
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 40He shall fly as an eagle - The enemy will pounce upon him, carry him off, and tear him to pieces.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40The rapid and irresistible attack of Nebuchadnezzar is compared to the impetuous dash of the eagle on its prey Deuteronomy 28:49.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-47Verses 14-47 . The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40The eagle symbolizes speed and surprise. It catches its prey and carries it away before the prey can react.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4040. he--Nebuzara-dan, the captain of Nebuchadnezzar. as ... eagle--not to bear them "on eagles' wings" (Ex 19:4; De 32:11, 12), as God does His people, but to pounce on them as a prey (Jr 49:22; De 28:49; Ha 1:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 48
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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