Lamentations 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ They hunt our steps, That we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; For our end is come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ [The missiles of the enemy] dog our steps, so that we cannot go into our streets; our end is near, our days are fulfilled–yes, our end has come.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Our steps were tracked; we could no longer walk in our streets. Our end had drawn near; our days were done—our end had definitely come.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ SADE. Our footsteps have slipped on the paths of our own streets. Our end draws near. Our days have been completed, for our end has arrived.

Lamentations 4:18 Cross References

Amos 8:2

He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

Lamentations 3:52

Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird;

Jeremiah 16:16

I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Ezekiel 12:27

Mortal, the house of Israel is saying, “The vision that he sees is for many years ahead; he prophesies for distant times.”

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.

Jeremiah 1:12

Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”

Psalm 140:11

Do not let the slanderer be established in the land; let evil speedily hunt down the violent!

Job 10:16

Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me.

1 Samuel 24:14

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 37:13

When he reached the Benjamin Gate, a sentinel there named Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah arrested the prophet Jeremiah saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”