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Habakkuk 1:8

The New Testament’s use of Habakkuk

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo3

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 17:37 ?

The Chaldean horsemen who fly 'like an eagle swift to devour' gathering to the prey supply the swooping-bird-of-prey-toward-the-doomed imagery. Moderate Volume; reinforces the judgment-by-gathering-raptors motif.

Medium confidence
Matt 24:23-28 ?

'wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather' evokes the swift birds of prey swooping to the kill in Habakkuk's vision of judgment, the inevitability and visibility of the coming devastation.

Low confidence
Rev 9:13-19 ?

The Chaldean horses 'swifter than leopards... they fly like an eagle swooping to devour' — the terror-cavalry-of-judgment imagery behind the swarming horsemen of 9:16-17. Faint background to the invading-cavalry motif.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Habakkuk 1
Habakkuk 1:5 3Habakkuk 1:14-15 2