Job 39:27
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
BSB
ASV
Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?
KJV
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make for thee her nest in high places. 94. In Holy Scripture, by the word 'eagle' are sometimes designated malignant spirits, the spoilers of souls, sometimes the powers of the present world, but sometimes either the very subtle understandings of the Saints, or the Incarnate Lord, swiftly flying over things below, and presently seeking again those on high.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? - Margin, as in Hebrew, “by thy mouth.” The meaning is, that Job had not power to direct or order the eagle in his lofty flight. The eagle has always been celebrated for the height to which it ascends. When Ramond had reached the summit of Mount Perdu, the highest of the Pyrenees, he perceived no living creature but an eagle which passed above him, flying with inconceivable rapidity in direct opposition to a furious wind. “Edin.
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Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
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Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
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In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days…
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.