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Lamentations 4:18

16 The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

17 All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

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!

19 Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

20 The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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!
KJV
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
BLB
They tracked our steps, from walking in our own streets; our end came near; our days were fulfilled, for our end had come.
ÅB
De lurte på våre skritt, så vi ikke kunne gå på våre gater; vår ende var kommet nær, vår tid var omme, ja, vår ende var kommet.
OTB
De jaget våre skritt så vi ikke kunne gå i våre gater. Vår ende var nær, våre dager var talt, for vår ende var kommet.
B1930
De lurte på våre skritt, så vi ikke kunde gå på våre gater; vår ende var kommet nær, vår tid var omme, ja, vår ende var kommet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 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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  • Psalms 140:11

    May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

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  • Ezekiel 7:2–12

    “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.

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  • Lamentations 3:52

    Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

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  • Jeremiah 16:16

    But 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.

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  • 1 Samuel 24:14

    Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

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  • Job 10:16

    Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

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  • 2 Kings 25:4–5

    Then 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,

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