Lamentations 4:18
Good News Translation
The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets. Our days were over; the end had come.

New Revised Standard Version
They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come.

Contemporary English Version
Enemies hunted us down on every public street. Our time was up; our doom was near.

New American Bible
They dogged our every step, we could not walk in our squares; Our end drew near, our time was up; yes, our end had come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

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Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

hunt

Lamentations 3:52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

1 Samuel 24:14 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.

2 Kings 25:4,5 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness. . . .

Job 10:16 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Jeremiah 16:16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jeremiah 39:4,5 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. . . .

Jeremiah 52:7-9 And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness. . . .

our end is near

Jeremiah 1:12 And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it.

Jeremiah 51:33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Ezekiel 7:2-12 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. . . .

Ezekiel 12:22,23,27 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail. . . .

Amos 8:2 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Context
The Distress of Zion
17Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save. 18Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.19Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 16:16
Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezekiel 7:2
And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land.

Amos 8:2
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Lamentations 4:17
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