Lamentations 4:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'

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  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • 2 Sam 19:21 : 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?
  • Jer 39:5 : 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.
  • Ezek 12:13 : 13 My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
  • 2 Sam 1:14 : 14 And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is disdainfully cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
  • 2 Sam 18:3 : 3 But the people answered, You shall not go out: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; nor if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that you support us out of the city.
  • Ps 89:20-21 : 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established; my arm also shall strengthen him.
  • Ezek 17:18 : 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand and has done all these things, he shall not escape.
  • Ezek 19:4-8 : 4 The nations also heard of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch prey, and devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.
  • Jer 52:8 : 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.
  • Gen 44:30 : 30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it to you.
  • 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 And he said to them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
  • 1 Sam 16:6 : 6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.
  • 1 Sam 24:6 : 6 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
  • 1 Sam 26:9 : 9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
  • 1 Sam 26:16 : 16 This thing you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you are deserving of death because you have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

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