Lamentations 4:19
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 5:5 echoes 'our pursuers are at our necks' — both verses lament the oppressive pressure of enemies.
Lamentations 1:3 says persecutors overtook Judah in straits — same theme of relentless enemies catching the fugitives.
Habakkuk 1:8 describes horsemen 'swift as leopards' and 'fly like an eagle' — very similar imagery of swift invaders.
In Deuteronomy 28:49, an enemy comes swift as an eagle, matching Lamentations 4:19's pursuers swifter than eagles.
Jeremiah 4:13 uses the exact phrase 'swifter than eagles' and 'woe to us' — this is the same prediction of judgment that Lamentations laments.
In Isaiah 5:26-28, a swift, relentless foreign army is described, echoing Lamentations 4:19's image of swift pursuers.
Jeremiah 52:8 describes the Chaldean army overtaking Zedekiah — the historical reality behind the swift pursuers lamented here.
2 Kings 25:6 records the capture of Zedekiah by the Babylonian army — the exact event described metaphorically here as pursuers swifter than eagles.
Ezekiel 12:13 prophesies Zedekiah being caught in God's net and brought to Babylon — the capture that the swift pursuers of this verse accomplish.
Ezekiel 17:3's great eagle represents Nebuchadnezzar — the very king whose armies are the swift pursuers here.
In 2 Samuel 1:23, the same 'swifter than eagles' simile praises Saul and Jonathan's speed — here it describes the swiftness of pursuers in judgment.
Isaiah 30:16 uses the same swift pursuit imagery: because Israel trusted in swift horses, their pursuers will be swift, echoing the enemy's speed here.
Hosea 8:1 pictures an eagle coming against God's house as judgment, matching the eagle-like pursuers here.
Amos 9:1-3 describes no escape from God's judgment even on high mountains, similar to the relentless pursuit here but on a divine scale.
Jeremiah 48:40 uses the same eagle imagery for Nebuchadnezzar's attack on Moab — both depict a swift, swooping invader.
Hosea 8:3 warns that spurning the good leads to enemy pursuit; here the swift pursuers fulfill that judgment.
Amos 2:14 says swift flight will perish — contrasting the swift pursuers here who succeed in catching their prey.