²⁸ for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

³⁷ And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body `is', there will the eagles be gathered together.'

⁴⁹ `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

²⁷ At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?

²⁸ A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.

²⁹ From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,

³⁰ And his brood gulph up blood, And where the pierced `are' -- there `is' he!

¹⁶ Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.

¹ I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.

² If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

³ And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.

⁴ And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.