Lamentations 4:20

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord’s anointed—our very lifebreath!— was caught in their snares, He in whose shade we thought to live among the nations.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 44:30

“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, whose very life is bound up with his, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is missing;

2 Samuel 1:14

David said to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to put forth your hand to desecrate the Lord’s anointed?”

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, upon you be neither dew nor rain, nor surging from the deeps! Defiled there the warriors’ shields, the shield of Saul—no longer anointed with oil!

2 Samuel 18:3

But they replied: “You must not come out with us. For if we flee, no one will care; even if half of us die, no one will care. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that we have you to help us from the city.”

2 Samuel 19:21

For your servant knows that I have done wrong. But I now am the first of the whole house of Joseph to come down today to meet my lord the king.”

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also composed a lamentation for Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations for Josiah. These have been made an ordinance for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.

Jeremiah 39:5

but the Chaldean army pursued them; they caught up with Zedekiah in the wilderness near Jericho and took him prisoner. They brought him to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced sentence upon him.

Jeremiah 52:8

But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the wilderness near Jericho; his whole army fled from him.

Jeremiah 52:9

The king, therefore, was arrested and brought to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, to the king of Babylon, who pronounced judgment on him.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the ground; he smashed her bars to bits. Her king and her princes are among the nations; instruction is wanting, Even her prophets do not obtain any vision from the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:13

I will spread my net over him and he shall be caught in my snare. I will bring him into Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans, though he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Ezekiel 17:18

He ignored his oath, breaking his covenant; even though he gave his hand, he did all these things— he shall not escape!

Ezekiel 31:17

They too will go down to Sheol, to those slain by the sword, Its allies who dwelt in its shade among the nations.

Daniel 4:12

but leave its stump in the earth. Bound with iron and bronze, let him be fed with the grass of the field and bathed with the dew of heaven; let his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

Hosea 13:10

Where now is your king, that he may rescue you? And all your princes, that they may defend you? Of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Judges 9:15

The buckthorn answered the trees, ‘If you are anointing me in good faith, to make me king over you, come, and take refuge in my shadow. But if not, let fire come from the buckthorn and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I stand! Answer me in the presence of the Lord and the Lord’s anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I wronged? From whom have I accepted a bribe and shut my eyes because of it? I will make restitution to you.”

1 Samuel 12:5

So he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you this day, and the Lord’s anointed is witness, that you have found nothing in my possession.” “The Lord is witness,” they said. Samuel Admonishes the People.

1 Samuel 16:6

As they came, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the anointed is here before the Lord.”

1 Samuel 24:10

and asked Saul: “Why do you listen to those who say, ‘David is trying to harm you’?

1 Samuel 24:6

Afterward, however, David regretted that he had cut off an end of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 26:16

What you have done is not right. As the Lord lives, you people deserve death because you have not guarded your lord, the anointed of the Lord. Go, look: where are the king’s spear and the water jug that was at his head?” Saul Admits His Guilt.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “Do not harm him, for who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and remain innocent?