Lamentations 4:18
They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
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1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
Jeremiah 1:12Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”
Jeremiah 37:13When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
Jeremiah 51:33For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
Lamentations 3:52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
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 →