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Lamentations 4:18

New International Reader's Version

People hunted us down no matter where we went. We couldn’t even walk in our streets. Our end was near, so we only had a few days to live. Our end had come.

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If I become proud, you hunt me down like a lion. You show your mighty power against me.

Don’t let people who lie about me be secure in the land. May trouble hunt down those who want to hurt me.

The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly. I am watching to see that my word comes true.”

“But now I will send for many fishermen,” announces the Lord. “They will catch some of these people. After that, I will send for many hunters. They will hunt down the others on every mountain and hill. They will bring them out of the cracks in the rocks.

He got as far as the Benjamin Gate. But the captain of the guard arrested him. He said, “You are going over to the side of the Babylonians!” The captain’s name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah. Shelemiah was the son of Hananiah.

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests rule by their own authority. And my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?”

The Lord who rules over all is the God of Israel. He says, “The city of Babylon is like a threshing floor when cattle are walking on it. The time to destroy it will soon come.”

Those who were my enemies for no reason at all hunted me down as if I were a bird.

“Son of man, the Israelites are saying, ‘The vision Ezekiel sees won’t come true for many years. He is prophesying about a time that is a long way off.’

“What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I replied. Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.

“King Saul, who are you trying to catch? Who do you think you are chasing? I’m nothing but a dead dog or a flea!




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