Lamentations 4:18
They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, || Near has been our end, fulfilled our days, || For our end has come.
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1 Samuel 24:14After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog! After one flea!
Job 10:16And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
Jeremiah 1:12And YHWH says to me, “You have seen well: for I am watching over My word to do it.”
Jeremiah 37:13And it comes to pass, he is at the Gate of Benjamin, and there [is] a master of the ward, and his name is Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah; and he catches Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
Jeremiah 51:33For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-floor, || The time of her threshing—yet a little [while], || And the time of her harvest has come.
Lamentations 3:52Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the 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 →