Deuteronomy 28:49

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴⁹ “The LORD will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture,

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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.
Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 5:26-30; Jeremiah 5:15-17; Daniel 6:22; Daniel 6:23; Daniel 9:26; Habakkuk 1:6; Habakkuk 1:7
Luke 19:43; Luke 19:44
as the eagle.
Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Lamentations 4:19; Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 17:12; Hosea 8:1; Matthew 24:28
a nation whose.
Jeremiah 5:15; Ezekiel 3:6; 1 Corinthians 14:21
understand. Heb. hear.