Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Our persecutors are swifter than eagles. The last times are here described, just before the taking of the city. Our persecutors are swifter than eagles. The last times are here described, just before the taking of the city. There was no place of escape; the foe intercepted those wishing to escape from the famine-stricken city, "on the mountains and in the wilderness."
Swifter than ... eagles - the Chaldean cavalry (Jeremiah 4:13). They pursued us - literally, to be hot; then to pursue hotly (Genesis 31:36). Thus they pursued and overtook Zedekiah (Jeremiah 52:8-9).
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