Lamentations 4:18

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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.

DRC

Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

GNV

They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes: our ende is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.

JPS

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

LXXE

We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. Koph. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

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Original-language editions

WLC

צָד֣וּ צְעָדֵ֔ינוּ מִלֶּ֖כֶת בִּרְחֹבֹתֵ֑ינוּ קָרַ֥ב קִצֵּ֛ינוּ מָלְא֥וּ יָמֵ֖ינוּ כִּי־בָ֥א קִצֵּֽינוּ׃

LXX-Br

ΤΣΑΔΗ. Ἀπεσκοπεύσαμεν εἰς ἔθνος οὐ σῶζον, ἐθηρεύσαμεν μικροὺς ἡμῶν, τοῦ μὴ πορεύεσθαι ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις ἡμῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• 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.”
• 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. The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you…
• Psalms 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
• 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…
• Lamentations 3:52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
• 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.’
• Jeremiah 39:4–5When 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.…
• 2 Kings 25:4–5Then 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, but the…
• Ezekiel 12:22–23“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’? Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in…
• 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.”
• 1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
• Jeremiah 52:7–9Then 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,…
• Jeremiah 1:12“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
• Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

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