Lamentations 4:20

Modern English Version

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.

Genesis 44:30

“Now therefore when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,

2 Samuel 1:14

David said to him, “How is it that you did not fear raising your hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord?”

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no rain or dew upon you or your bountiful fields; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled! The shield of Saul is no longer anointed with oil.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the people said, “You should not go, for if we retreat, they will not be concerned about us. Even if half of us die, they will not be concerned about us. But now you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore, it would be better to assist us from the city.”

2 Samuel 19:21

Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of the Lord?”

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Isaiah 32:2

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Jeremiah 39:5

But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he passed sentence on him.

Jeremiah 52:8

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52:9

Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath where he passed sentence on him.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the Law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:13

My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

Ezekiel 17:18

Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, behold, when he had given his allegiance and has done all these things, he shall not escape.

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down into Sheol with it to those who were slain with the sword. And those who were its power lived under its shadow in the midst of the nations.

Daniel 4:12

Its leaves were fair, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shadow under it, and the fowl of the heavens lived in its boughs, and all flesh was fed of it.

Hosea 13:10

Where now is your king that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Judges 9:15

“The thorn bush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade. If not, let fire come out from the thorn bush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold, here I am. Witness against me before the Lord and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with? Indeed I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 12:5

He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they answered, “He is witness.”

1 Samuel 16:6

When they came, he looked on Eliab, and said, “Surely the anointed of the Lord is before Him.”

1 Samuel 24:10

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave. So that some said to kill you, but my eye had compassion on you. And I said, ‘I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is anointed of the Lord.’

1 Samuel 24:6

He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, for he is anointed of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 26:16

This thing is not good which you have done. As the Lord lives, you are worthy of death because you have not guarded your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now, see where is the king’s spear? And the jug of water that was at his head?”

1 Samuel 26:9

David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?”