Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

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WEBBE

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

BSB

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

KJV

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

ASV

As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.

BBE

As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

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כְּנֶשֶׁר ke·ne·sher like an eagle H5404 יָעִיר ya·'ir [which] it stirs up H5782 קִנּוֹ ki·no nest its H7064 עַל־ 'al- over H5921 גּוֹזָלָיו go·za·lav young ones its H1469 יְרַחֵף ye·ra·chef it hovers H7363 יִפְרֹשׂ yif·ros it spreads out H6566 כְּנָפָיו ke·na·fav wings its H3671 יִקָּחֵהוּ yi·ka·che·hu it takes it H3947 יִשָּׂאֵהוּ yi·sa·'e·hu it carries it H5375 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 אֶבְרָתוֹ 'ev·ra·to pinion its H84

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–14

Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. #(13-14), are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, and the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.

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