Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, Our days were finished For our end had come. King James Bible They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Darby Bible Translation 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. World English Bible They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Young's Literal Translation 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 Parallel Commentary Barnes' Notes on the BibleOr, They hunted "our steps that we could not go out into the streets. To hunt" means here to lie in ambush, and catch by snares; and the streets are literally "the wide places," especially at the gates. Toward the end of the siege the towers erected by the enemy would command these places. Lamentations 4:18 Parallel Commentaries Library The Children of the Poor. THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR. The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.--LAMENTATIONS iv., 4. The writer of these words bewailed a state of War and Captivity--a state of things in which the great relations of human life are broken up and desecrated. But it is strange to find that the most flourishing forms of civilization involve conditions very similar to this. For, if any man will push beyond the circle of his daily associations, and enter the regions of the abject poor, he will … E. H. Chapin—Humanity in the City The Great Shepherd Cross References Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it? Jeremiah 16:16 "Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks. Ezekiel 7:2 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land. Amos 8:2 He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer. Jump to Previous Broad Drew End Finished Fulfilled Hunt Hunted Numbered Places Step Steps Streets WalkJump to Next Broad Drew End Finished Fulfilled Hunt Hunted Numbered Places Step Steps Streets WalkLinks Lamentations 4:18 NIVLamentations 4:18 NLT Lamentations 4:18 ESV Lamentations 4:18 NASB Lamentations 4:18 KJV Lamentations 4:18 Bible Apps Lamentations 4:18 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 4:18 Chinese Bible Lamentations 4:18 French Bible Lamentations 4:18 German Bible Lamentations 4:18 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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