40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.


In Context

37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

38 It is wholly lamentation upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the public places thereof; for I have broken Moab, like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith Jehovah.

39 They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

40 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread forth his wings over Moab.

41 Kerijoth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Moab shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.

Jeremiah 48:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

48:40This is what the Lord says: "Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

48:40Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus saith the LORD: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus said Jehovah: Lo, as an eagle he doth flee, And hath spread his wings unto Moab.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:40For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.