Lamentations 4:18

We have hunted for our little ones, 1 That they should not walk in our streets. 1 Our time has drawn nigh, 1 Our days are fulfilled, 1 Our time is come. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

17While we yet lived our eyes failed, 1 While we looked in vain for our help. 1 We looked to a nation that could not save. 1

19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, 1 They flew on the mountains, 1 In the wilderness they laid wait for us. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

Job 10:16For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; 1 For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me; 1

Jeremiah 1:12And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.

Jeremiah 37:13There is none to judge thy cause: thou hast been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for thee.

Jeremiah 51:33Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

Lamentations 3:52The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, 1 All mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, 1

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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