Some eaglets start immediately to stretch their wings and soar on the rising winds.
But others are slow to adapt. Flapping its wings helplessly, an eaglet may start to slip downwards onto the rocky face below. It is then that the mother eagle swoops below the floundering eaglet, literally takes it onto her back and flies with it back to the nest. Soon she pushes the eaglet off the edge again until it finally gets the knack and catches the wind. He was describing the promise to Israel as a community, and was affirming that as it attempted to face the difficulties of exile, of loss and of alienation from its more powerful neighbors, God would give it strength to overcome and soar.