Lamentations 4:18
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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.

Lexicon
They stalked
צָד֣וּ (ṣā·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6679: To lie alongside, to catch an animal, to victual

our every step,
צְעָדֵ֔ינוּ (ṣə·‘ā·ḏê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6806: A pace, regular step

so that we could not walk
מִלֶּ֖כֶת (mil·le·ḵeṯ)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

in our streets.
בִּרְחֹבֹתֵ֑ינוּ (bir·ḥō·ḇō·ṯê·nū)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7339: A broad open place, plaza

Our end
קִצֵּ֛ינוּ (qiṣ·ṣê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7093: An extremity, after

drew near,
קָרַ֥ב (qā·raḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7126: To come near, approach

our time
יָמֵ֖ינוּ (yā·mê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

ran out,
מָלְא֥וּ (mā·lə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of

for our end
קִצֵּֽינוּ׃ (qiṣ·ṣê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7093: An extremity, after

had come!
בָ֥א (ḇā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go


Additional Translations
They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

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.

We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

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.

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

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

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.

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