Lamentations 4:18

SADE. Our footsteps have slipped on the paths of our own streets. Our end draws near. Our days have been completed, for our end has arrived.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

In Context

17AIN. While we were still standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively toward a nation that was not able to save.

19COPH. Our persecutors have been swifter than the eagles of the sky. They have been pursuing us above the mountains; they have lain in wait for us in the desert.

Read all of Lamentations 4

Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14So too, it is said in the ancient proverb, ‘From the impious, impiety will go forth.’ Therefore, my hand will not be upon you.

Job 10:16And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.

Jeremiah 1:12And the Lord said to me: “You have seen well. For I will keep watch over my word, so that I may accomplish it.”

Jeremiah 37:13And Jeremiah responded: “That is false. I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him. And so Irijah took Jeremiah, and he brought him to the leaders.

Jeremiah 51:33For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor. This is the time of her threshing. A little while longer, and the time of her harvest will arrive.”

Lamentations 3:52SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Lamentations 4:18