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Lamentations 4:18

They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

Young's Literal Translation

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 exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that] saveth not.

19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned [after] us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14'After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? — after a dead dog! after one flea!

Job 10:16And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

Jeremiah 1:12And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Thou hast well seen: for I am watching over My word to do it.'

Jeremiah 37:13And it cometh 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 catcheth Jeremiah the prophet, saying, 'Unto the Chaldeans thou art falling.'

Jeremiah 51:33For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing — yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.

Lamentations 3:52Hunted me sore as a bird have 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 →

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