Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
They have laid snares for our steps, that we cannot walk in our own broadways: Drawn near hath our end, Fulfilled are our days, yea arrived hath our end.
New American Standard Bible
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our
Our days were
For our end had come.
King James Version
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Holman Bible
צ Tsade
so that we could not walk in our streets.
Our end drew near;
Our end had come!
International Standard Version
Our steps were closely stalked, so we couldn't travel on our own streets. Our end is near, our days are over; indeed, our end has come.
A Conservative Version
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
American Standard Version
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Amplified
The enemy hunted our steps,
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our end drew near,
Our days were finished
For our end had come.
Bible in Basic English
They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
Darby Translation
They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Julia Smith Translation
They hunted our steps from going in our broad places: our end drew near, our days were completed; for our end came.
King James 2000
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished}, our end has come.
Modern King James verseion
They hunted our steps from going in our streets; our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Tsadi} They lay so sharp wait for us, that we can not go safe upon the streets: for our end is come, our days are fulfilled, our end is here.
NET Bible
(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!
New Heart English Bible
They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.
Webster
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
World English Bible
They 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.
Interlinear
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Yowm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Of Zion Speak Out
17 Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched - for a nation that will not save. 18 They have laid snares for our steps, that we cannot walk in our own broadways: Drawn near hath our end, Fulfilled are our days, yea arrived hath our end. 19 Swifter are our pursuers, than the eagles of the heavens, - Over the mountains, have they come hotly after us, In the wilderness, have they lain in wait for us.
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 8:2
So then he said, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end hath come unto my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive them;
Ezekiel 7:2-12
Thou therefore O son of man. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, To the so of Israel, there is an end,- The end hath come upon the four skirts of the land.
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold me! sending for many fishers Declareth Yahweh, And they shall catch them, - and thereafter will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from off every mountain and from off every hill, and out of the clefts of the crags.
Lamentations 3:52
They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom, hath the king of Israel come forth? After whom, art thou in pursuit? After a dead dog! after a single flea!
2 Kings 25:4-5
then was the city broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about, - and he went the way of the Waste Plain;
Job 10:16
When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvellous against me.
Psalm 140:11
As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust.
Jeremiah 1:12
Then said Yahweh unto me - Thou hast rightly seen, - for keeping watch, am I over my word to perform it.
Jeremiah 39:4-5
And it came to pass as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls, - and he went forth by way of the waste plain.
Jeremiah 51:33
For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing, floor at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her.
Jeremiah 52:7-9
then was the city broken up, and all the men of war, beginning to flee went forth out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the garden of the king the Chaldeans being near the city round about, - and they went the way towards the Waste Plain.
Ezekiel 12:22-23
Son of man What is this proverb ye have, concerning the so of Israel, saying, - The days, are prolonged, Therefore shall every vision come to nought?
Ezekiel 12:27
Son of man. Lo! the house of Israel are saying, the vision which he seeth is for many days, Yea for times far away, hath hell prophesied.