Deuteronomy 28:49 KJV
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Thou and Ye
- thee, thou one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- Their ruin, if disobedientIf God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those...
Thompson Chains
- God's JudgmentsSee the chain from Exodus 6:6 · 10 links
Cross References
- Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
- Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
- Isaiah 5:26–30 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: …
- Jeremiah 48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
- Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, 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.
- Jeremiah 5:15–17 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. …
- Ezekiel 17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
- Ezekiel 17:12 Say 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 to Babylon;
- Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
- Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- Jeremiah 6:22–23 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. …
- Ezekiel 3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
- Daniel 6:22–23 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. …
- Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: 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.
- Habakkuk 1:6–7 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. …
- Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
- Luke 19:43–44 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, …
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Dispensation of God
- Backsliders General scriptures concerning
- Disobedience to God Denunciations against
- Eagle The swift flight of
- Holy spirit Israelites
- Idolatry Denunciations against
- Israel, prophecies concerning Of war and other judgments
- Judgments Denounced against disobedience
- Obedience Enjoined
- Reprobacy General scriptures concerning
- Reverence Reverence
- War God uses, as a judgment
- Wicked (people) Punishment of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Bible Dictionary
- LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
Hebrew and Strong’s
- The LORD יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
- shall bring יִשָּׂא yiśśāʾ נָשָׂא Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- a nation גּוֹי gôy גּוֹי Noun · masculine singular
- against thee from far עָלֶיךָ ʿālêkā Preposition · with suffix: second person masculine singular מֵרָחוֹק mērāḥôq רָחוֹק Adjective · masculine singular · with preposition
- from the end מִקְצֵה miqṣê קָצֶה Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with preposition
- of the earth הָאָרֶץ hāʾāreṣ אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the
- as the eagle הַנָּשֶׁר hannāšer נֶשֶׁר Noun · masculine singular · with the
- flieth כַּאֲשֶׁר kaʾăšer Relative · with preposition יִדְאֶה yidʾê דָּאָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- a nation גּוֹי gôy גּוֹי Noun · masculine singular
- whose tongue לְשֹׁנוֹ lĕšōnô לָשׁוֹן Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: third person masculine singular
- thou shalt not understand אֲשֶׁר ʾăšer Relative לֹא lōʾ Negative תִשְׁמַע tišmaʿ שָׁמַע Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine singular
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