18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.


In Context

15 They cried to them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Lamentations 4:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Men stalked us at every step, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near, our days were numbered, for our end had come.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end draweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18They 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.