Lamentations 4:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

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  • Amos 8:2 : 2 And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
  • Ezek 7:2-9 : 2 Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end, the end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end has come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations. 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity: but I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the Lord GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, has come. 6 An end has come, the end has come; it watches for you; behold, it has come. 7 The morning has come upon you, O you that dwell in the land; the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shouting from the mountains. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. 10 Behold the day, behold, it has come; the morning has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, not of their multitude, nor of any of theirs; neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time has come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
  • Lam 3:52 : 52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Jer 39:4-5 : 4 And it happened that when Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saw them and all the men of war, they fled and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain. 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
  • Jer 51:33 : 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
  • Jer 52:7-9 : 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were all around the city:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment upon him.
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
  • 2 Kgs 25:4-5 : 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army scattered from him.
  • Job 10:16 : 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me.
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Jer 1:12 : 12 Then the LORD said to me, You have seen well: for I will hasten My word to perform it.
  • Ezek 12:22-23 : 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb cease, and they shall no longer use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
  • Ezek 12:27 : 27 Son of man, behold, the house of Israel says, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.

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