Jeremiah 48:40
King James VersionSource notes
“For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.”
Context
37For every head bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein no pleasure, saith the LORD.
39They shall howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
40For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42And Moab shall be destroyed from a people, because he hath magnified against the LORD.
43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.