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Lamentations 4:18

They followed our steps, 1 we could not walk in our streets. 1 Our end was near and our days were numbered, 1 our end had come. 1

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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

17Our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; 1 from our watchtowers we watched 1 for a nation that could not rescue us. 1

19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the sky. 1 They chased us to the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!

Job 10:16If my head were lifted up, 1 you would stalk me like a lion; 1 and again you would show yourself with marvellous acts of power against me. 1

Jeremiah 1:12Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to carry it out.”

Jeremiah 37:13As he was in the Benjamin Gate, a chief guard was there. His name was Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah. He grabbed hold of Jeremiah the prophet and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”

Jeremiah 51:33For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor. 1 It is time to trample her down. In a little while the time of harvest will come to her. 1

Lamentations 3:52I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies; they hunted me without a reason. 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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