Lamentations 4:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes: our ende is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.

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  • Amos 8:2 : 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I sayd, A basket of sommer fruite. Then sayd the Lorde vnto me, The ende is come vpon my people of Israel, I wil passe by them no more.
  • Ezek 7:2-9 : 2 Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, An ende is come vnto the lande of Israel: the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the lande. 3 Nowe is the ende come vpon thee, and I wil sende my wrath vpon thee, and will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will laye vpon thee all thine abominations. 4 Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue pitie: but I will laye thy waies vpon thee: and thine abomination shall bee in the middes of thee, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde. 5 Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come. 6 An ende is come, the end is come, it watched for thee: beholde, it is come. 7 The morning is come vnto thee, that dwellest in the lande: the time is come, the day of trouble is neere, and not the sounding againe of the mountaines. 8 Now I will shortly powre out my wrath vpon thee, and fulfil mine anger vpon thee: I will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will lay vpon thee all thine abominations. 9 Neither shall mine eie spare thee, neither will I haue pitie, but I will laye vpon thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations shalbe in the middes of thee, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde that smiteth. 10 Beholde, the day, beholde, it is come: the morning is gone forth, the rod florisheth: pride hath budded. 11 Crueltie is risen vp into a rod of wickednes: none of them shal remaine, nor of their riches, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there bee lamentation for them. 12 The time is come, the day draweth neere: let not the byer reioyce, nor let him that selleth, mourne: for the wrath is vpon al the multitude thereof.
  • Lam 3:52 : 52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, sayth the Lord, I wil send out many fishers, and they shal fish them, and after, will I send out many hunters, and they shal hunt them from euery mountaine and from euery hill, and out of the caues of the rockes.
  • Jer 39:4-5 : 4 And when Zedekiah the King of Iudah saw them, and all the men of warre, then they fled, and went out of the citie by night, through the Kings garden, and by the gate betweene the two walles, and he went toward the wildernes. 5 But the Caldeans hoste pursued after them, and ouertooke Zedekiah in the desart of Iericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel vnto Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gaue iudgement vpon him.
  • Jer 51:33 : 33 For thus sayth the Lorde of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babel is like a threshing floore: the time of her threshing is come: yet a litle while, and the time of her haruest shal come.
  • Jer 52:7-9 : 7 Then the citie was broken vp and all the men of warre fled, and went out of the citie by night, by the way of the gate betweene the two walles, which was by the kings garden: (now the Caldeans were by the citie round about) & they went by the way of the wildernes. 8 But the army of the Caldeans pursued after the king, and tooke Zedekiah in the desert of Iericho, and all his host was scattered from him. 9 Then they tooke the king and caryed him vp vnto the king of Babel to Riblah in the lande of Hamath, where he gaue iudgement vpo him.
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 (24:15) After whom is the King of Israel come out? after whome doest thou pursue? after a dead dog, and after a flea?
  • 2 Kgs 25:4-5 : 4 Then the citie was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled by night, by the way of the gate, which is betweene two walles that was by the Kings garden: nowe the Caldees were by the citie round about: and the King went by the way of the wildernesse. 5 But the armie of the Caldees pursued after the King, and tooke him in the desertes of Iericho, and all his hoste was scattered from him.
  • Job 10:16 : 16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
  • Jer 1:12 : 12 Then saide the Lorde vnto me, Thou hast seene aright: for I will hasten my worde to performe it.
  • Ezek 12:22-23 : 22 Sonne of man, what is that prouerbe that you haue in the land of Israel, saying, The dayes are prolonged and all visions faile? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus sayeth the Lord God, I wil make this prouerbe to cease, and they shall no more vse it as a prouerbe in Israel: but say vnto them, The daies are at hand and the effect of euery vision.
  • Ezek 12:27 : 27 Sonne of man, beholde, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that hee seeth, is for many dayes to come, and he prophecieth of the times that are farre off.

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    19Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.

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    17Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.

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    11They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

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    4Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

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    17Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,

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    46All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.

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    6They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

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    9Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.

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    4Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

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    25My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

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    13They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.

    14They came as a great breach of waters, & vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.

  • Jer 6:24-25
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    24We haue heard their fame, and our handes waxe feeble sorrowe is come vpon vs, as the sorrowe of a woman in trauaile.

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    22Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

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    18Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,

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    8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

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    15We looked for peace, but no good came, & for a time of health, and behold troubles.

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    21For death is come vp into our windowes, and is entred into our palaces, to destroy the children without, and the yong men in the streetes.

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    18Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.

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    18And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

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    11Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.

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    11Behold, I say, they reward vs, in coming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.

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    7Our soule is escaped, euen as a bird out of the snare of the foulers: the snare is broken, and we are deliuered.

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    9We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

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    20Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

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    6An ende is come, the end is come, it watched for thee: beholde, it is come.

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    6For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.

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    17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

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    2Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

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    16All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnashe the teeth, saying, Let vs deuoure it: certainely this is the day that we looked for: we haue founde and seene it.