The Eagle: (Swiftness of) the Swiftness of Hostile Armies

The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.