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The LORD Speaks of His Creation

Job 39:27

In 11 translations

BSB
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
KJV
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?at…: Heb. by thy mouth
WEB
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
ASV
Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?
LSV
At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
YLT
At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
DBY
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
DRC
Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
GNV39:30
Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
JPS
Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
LXXE
And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐπὶ δὲ σῷ προστάγματι ὑψοῦται ἀετὸς, γὺψ δὲ ἐπὶ νοσσιᾶς αὐτοῦ καθεσθεὶς αὐλίζεται,

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  • Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring…
  • Obadiah 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
  • 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.
  • Hosea 8:1Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
  • 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.
  • Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
  • Leviticus 11:13Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
  • Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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  • 39:27 in most Bibles

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