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“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
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Verse 1. Eagle. It makes a noise like a trumpet. Pliny x. 3.—Osee denounces judgments on the house of Israel, which, though schismatical, was not entirely abandoned by the Lord. Salmanasar overturned the kingdom, and may be compared to an eagle, as Nabuchodonosor is frequently, Ezechiel 17:3. But he is not here meant. Calmet.—The temple shall be destroyed by him; (Saint Jerome) yet not so soon. Worthington.—Septuagint “In their bosom like earth appears, like an eagle,” and so forth Bible.
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