OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 28:49

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The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

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Verse 49. Swiftly. The Chaldees are designated in the same manner. Jeremiah 5:5. Ezekiel 17:3. 12. The Romans also carried an eagle, as their chief standard, and the rapidity of their conquests astonished all the world.

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