Lamentations 4:18 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.”
Lamentations 4:18 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:18 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:18 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.”
Lamentations 4:18 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:18 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. ”
Lamentations 4:18 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:18 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.”
Lamentations 4:18 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:18 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. ”
Lamentations 4:18 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:18 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes: our ende is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.”
Lamentations 4:18 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:18 in Context — Lamentations 4
16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
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What Does Lamentations 4:18 Mean?
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