American Standard Version
"For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. "
— Jeremiah 48:40, American Standard Version
“For thus saith the Lord; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.”
“For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.”
“For the LORD says,“Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab.”
“Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.”
“For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.”
“For thus saith the Lord; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.”
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
On 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.
How 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.
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Kerioth 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.
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.