Deuteronomy 28:49 (KJV)

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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

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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. Nu 24:24 Isa 5:26-30 Jer 5:15-17 Da 6:22 Da 6:23 Da 9:26 Hab 1:6 Hab 1:7 Lu 19:43 Lu 19:44

as the eagle. Jer 4:13 Jer 48:40 Jer 49:22 La 4:19 Eze 17:3 Eze 17:12 Ho 8:1 Mt 24:28

a nation whose. Jer 5:15 Eze 3:6 1Co 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.

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