Lamentations 4:18
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
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1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom do thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
Job 10:16And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
Jeremiah 1:12Then LORD said to me, Thou have well seen. For I watch over my word to perform it.
Jeremiah 37:13And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou are falling away to the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 51:33For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
Lamentations 3:52They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21
Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided… Read the whole commentary →