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Lamentations 4:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Our steps were closely followed so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end approached;  our time ran out. Our end had come!

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He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’ I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’  , The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel;  I will no longer spare them.


For no reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.


‘I am about to send for many fishermen’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,


‘Son of man, notice that the house of Israel is saying, “The vision that he sees concerns many years from now;  he prophesies about distant times.”


For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.


The Lord said to me, ‘You have seen correctly, for I watch over  my word to accomplish it.’


If I am proud,  you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.


Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A single flea?


The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


But when he was at the Benjamin Gate,  an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ‘You are defecting to the Chaldeans.’





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