What does the Bible say about eagle?
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The Bible uses the eagle to display God’s strength, swift judgment, tender care, and the renewed hope He gives to those who trust Him. Isaiah 40:29-31 promises that the weary who wait on the Lord will renew their strength and rise on wings like eagles. Psalm 103:5 likewise celebrates God’s renewing mercy. In Exodus 19:4 and Deuteronomy 32:11, the eagle pictures the Lord’s powerful yet protective care for His people. Other passages portray eagles as swift instruments of judgment or as symbols of watchful majesty. Above all, these images call believers to rely not on their own strength, but on the faithful God who carries, preserves, and restores His people.
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- Isaiah 40:31
but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
- Psalms 103:5
Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
- Exodus 19:4
'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
- Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bore them on his feathers.
- Isaiah 40:29-31
[29] He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength. [30] Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: [31] but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
- Revelation 12:14
Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
- Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Jeremiah 48:40
For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
- Job 39:27-30
[27] Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high? [28] On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold. [29] From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. [30] His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
- Revelation 4:7
The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
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