Lamentations 4:18

They laid snares for our steps, so that we could not go in our streets; Our end is near; our days are accomplished, yea, our end is 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

17Still did our eyes fail, looking for help in vain; On our watch-tower did we watch for a nation that could not save us.

19Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven; They chased us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Job 10:16If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.

Jeremiah 1:12And Jehovah said to me, Thou hast seen right; for I am watchful over my word to perform it.

Jeremiah 37:13And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Thou art going over to the Chaldaeans.”

Jeremiah 51:33For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon shall be like a thrashing-floor when it is thrashed; Yet a little while, and the time of harvest for her shall come.

Lamentations 3:52They that are my enemies without cause hunt me down 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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