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Jeremiah 48:40

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

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Jeremiah 48:40 in other translations

For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle,
and will spread out his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 48:40 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 48:40 in context

  1. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.
  2. 39How is it broken down! how do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
  3. 40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
  4. 41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  5. 42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.