Lamentations 4:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!”
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“They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 4:18 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
- 2 Kings 25:4Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
- Psalms 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
- Jeremiah 1:12“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
- Jeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
- Jeremiah 37:13But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
- Jeremiah 39:4When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
- Jeremiah 51:33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
- Jeremiah 52:7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- Lamentations 3:52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- Ezekiel 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
- Ezekiel 7:6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
- Ezekiel 12:27“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’
- Amos 8:2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
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