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


In Context

37 Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

38 On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants," declares the Lord .

39 "How shattered she is! How they wail! How Moab turns her back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule, an object of horror to all those around her."

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

41 Kerioth will be captured and the strongholds taken. In that day the hearts of Moab's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

42 Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the Lord .

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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