What does the Bible say about nation take up the eagle?
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The Bible uses the eagle chiefly as a picture of God’s powerful care and of swift judgment upon rebellious nations. In Exodus 19:4, the Lord recalls carrying Israel “on eagles’ wings” from Egypt, while Deuteronomy 32:11 compares His faithful instruction and protection to an eagle caring for its young. Isaiah 40:31 promises renewed strength to those who wait upon the Lord, who will rise like eagles. Yet the eagle also signals invading powers and coming judgment: Hosea 8:1, Deuteronomy 28:49, Jeremiah 48:40, Jeremiah 49:22, and Ezekiel 17:3 portray nations descending swiftly upon the guilty. Revelation 12:14 likewise shows God preserving His people amid spiritual conflict.
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- Exodus 19:4 13 votes
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
- Isaiah 40:31 12 votes
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
- Revelation 12:14 10 votes
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, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
- Hosea 8:1 8 votes
“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
- Jeremiah 48:40 8 votes
For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.
- Deuteronomy 32:11 8 votes
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.
- Jeremiah 49:22 7 votes
Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Ezekiel 17:3 7 votes
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 3 votes
Yahweh 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,
- Jeremiah 49:16 3 votes
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
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