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Lamentations 4:18

The enemy tracked our every movement so we couldn't walk through our streets. Our end approached. Our time was up because our end had come.

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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

17We wore out our eyes pointlessly looking for help the whole time; we watched from our towers for a nation to come that couldn't save us.

19Our pursuers were faster than eagles in the sky. They chased us across the mountains and ambushed us in the desert.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14Who is the king of Israel coming after? Who are you chasing? A dead dog! Just a flea!

Job 10:16If I do hold my head high you hunt me down like a lion, showing how powerful you are in hurting me.

Jeremiah 1:12“That's right, because I am watching to make sure what I say happens,” the Lord said.

Jeremiah 37:13However, when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the guard captain, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, arrested him, saying, “You're defecting to the Babylonians!”

Jeremiah 51:33This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: The people of Babylon are like a threshing floor when the grain is trampled out. Her time of harvest will come very soon.

Lamentations 3:52For no reason my enemies trapped me like 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 →

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