Lamentations 4:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Enemies hunted us down on every public street. Our time was up; our doom was near.

Cross References

Amos 8:2

and asked, “Amos, what do you see?” “A basket of ripe fruit,” I replied. Then he said, “This is the end for my people Israel. I won't forgive them again.

Lamentations 3:52

No one had reason to hate me, but I was hunted down like a bird.

Jeremiah 16:16

But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves.

Jeremiah 51:33

I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I make this promise— “Soon Babylon will be levelled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time.”

Jeremiah 1:12

“That's right,” the LORD replied, “and I always rise early to keep a promise.”

Psalm 140:11

Chase those cruel liars away! Let trouble hunt them down.

Job 10:16

No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion.

1 Samuel 24:14

Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I'm as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

Jeremiah 37:13

I was leaving Jerusalem through Benjamin Gate, when I was stopped by Irijah, the officer in charge of the soldiers at the gate. He said, “Jeremiah, you're under arrest for trying to join the Babylonians.”