Lamentations 4:18
They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
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1 Samuel 24:14\24:13\There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
Job 10:16And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
Jeremiah 1:12Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.
Jeremiah 37:13But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.
Jeremiah 51:33For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
Lamentations 3:52They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
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 →