Jeremiah 48:40
◄  Jeremiah 48:40  ►
New International Version (©2011)
This is what the LORD says: "Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is what the LORD says: "Look! The enemy swoops down like an eagle, spreading his wings over Moab.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For thus says the LORD: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For this is what the LORD says: He will swoop down like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For this is what the LORD says: "Look, like an eagle one will fly swiftly and spread his wings against Moab.

NET Bible (©2006)
For the LORD says, "Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"This is what the LORD says: The enemy will swoop down like eagles and spread their wings over Moab.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle. and shall spread his wings over Moab.

American King James Version
For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.

Darby Bible Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.

English Revised Version
For thus saith the LORD: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: Lo, as an eagle he doth flee, And hath spread his wings unto Moab.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

48:14-47. 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 search into all the figures and expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapter ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latter days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captives of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought back by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 40, 41. - The Septuagint has a shorter form (see introduction to chapter). Verse 40. - He shall fly as an eagle; rather, he shall swoop (same word and figure in Deuteronomy 28:49). The subject is not named, but (as in ch. 46:18) is Nebuchadnezzar.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thus saith the Lord, behold, he shall fly as an eagle,.... The enemy, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with his army; who is compared to an eagle for his strength, swiftness, and greediness after the prey:

and shall spread his wings over Moab; as an eagle spreads its wings, which are very large, over the little birds it seizes upon as its prey; so the king of Babylon would bring a numerous army against Moab, and spread it over his country. The Targum is,

"behold, as all eagle which flies, so a king shall come up with his army, and encamp against Moab.''

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

40. 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 (Jer 49:22; De 28:49; Hab 1:8).

Jeremiah 48:40 Parallel Commentaries

Jeremiah 48:40 NIV
Jeremiah 48:40 NLT
Jeremiah 48:40 ESV
Jeremiah 48:40 NASB
Jeremiah 48:40 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


The Judgment on Moab
…39They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him. 40For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. 41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. …

Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
Proverbs 30:19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman.
Isaiah 8:8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel!"
Isaiah 11:14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Jeremiah 49:22 Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Ezekiel 17:3 Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon. Taking hold of the top of a cedar,
Hosea 8:1 "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;