Lamentations 4:18

Lamentations chapter 4 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

v.18This passage

v.19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 24:14

    After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

  • Ezekiel 12:22

    Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

  • Jeremiah 39:4

    And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

  • Psalms 140:11

    An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • Jeremiah 16:16

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

  • Amos 8:2

    And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.