Genesis 15:11

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.

“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

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.

and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

“ ‘ “There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it.

“After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.

The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.