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Deut. 28:49 KJV (With Strong’s)

The Lord shall bring ab nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, asc swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not ηunderstand;

Jer. 5:15• ¹⁵{i}Behold, I bring a nation upon you from afar, house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest thou what they say.{/i} (Jer. 5:15)

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Jer. 6:22‑23• ²²{i}Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation is stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.{/i}
²³{i}They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for the battle, against thee, daughter of Zion.{/i} (Jer. 6:22‑23)

Lam. 4:19• ¹⁹Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:{HR}They pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. (Lam. 4:19)

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bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.

Num. 24:24• ²⁴And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim,{HR}And shall afflict Asshur, {i}and afflict Eber,{HR}And he also shall be for destruction.{/i} (Num. 24:24)

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Isa. 5:26‑30• ²⁶And he will lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
²⁷none shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
²⁸their arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
²⁹Their roaring [shall be] like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall growl, and lay hold of the prey, and carry [it] away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
³⁰And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof. (Isa. 5:26‑30)

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Jer. 5:15‑17• ¹⁵{i}Behold, I bring a nation upon you from afar, house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest thou what they say.{/i}
¹⁶{i}Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.{/i}
¹⁷{i}And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.{/i} (Jer. 5:15‑17)

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Dan. 6:22‑23• ²²{i}My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.{/i}
²³{i}Thereupon was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.{/i} (Dan. 6:22‑23)

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Dan. 9:26• ²⁶After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Dan. 9:26)

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Hab. 1:6‑7• ⁶For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs.
⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. (Hab. 1:6‑7)

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Luke 19:43‑44• ⁴³For days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall make a rampart about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side,
⁴⁴and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)

as the eagle.

Jer. 4:13• ¹³Behold he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are spoiled. (Jer. 4:13)

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Jer. 48:40• ⁴⁰For thus saith Jehovah; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. (Jer. 48:40)

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Jer. 49:22• ²²Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (Jer. 49:22)

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Lam. 4:19• ¹⁹Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:{HR}They pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. (Lam. 4:19)

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Ezek. 17:3,12• ³and say, Thus hath said the Lord Jehovah, The great eagle, great of wings, long of pinion, which was rich in many colours, came unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar;
¹²Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him into Babylon; (Ezek. 17:3,12)

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Hos. 8:1• ¹Set the trumpet to thy mouth. he shall come as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, {i}because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.{/i} (Hos. 8:1)

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Matt. 24:28• ²⁸Wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered. (Matt. 24:28)

a nation whose.

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Ezek. 3:6• ⁶{i}not to many peoples of strange language and of difficult speech, whose words thou canst not understand: had I sent thee to them, would they not hearken unto thee?{/i} (Ezek. 3:6)

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1 Cor. 14:21• ²¹In the law it is written, By men of other tongues, and by lips of others, will I speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to me, saith [the] Lord. (1 Cor. 14:21)

understand.

Heb. hear.

J. N. Darby Translation

Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest notd;

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "hearest not."

W. Kelly Translation

Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)