Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The People Of Zion Speak Out
17
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
18
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our
Our days were
For our end had come.
Phrases
Cross References
Amos 8:2
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 never again pass by them.
Ezekiel 7:2-12
"And you, O 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.
Jeremiah 16:16
"Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Lamentations 3:52
"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
2 Kings 25:4-5
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
Job 10:16
And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
Psalm 140:11
Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
Jeremiah 1:12
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
Jeremiah 39:4-5
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.
Jeremiah 51:33
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."
Jeremiah 52:7-9
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
Ezekiel 12:22-23
"Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, 'The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing'?
Ezekiel 12:27
"Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, 'The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.'