Lamentations 4:18-20

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁸ They hunted our steps, preventing us from going into the public squares of our city.
    Our end has drawn near. Our days are finished, for our end has come.
¹⁹ Our pursuers were faster than eagles in the sky.
    On the mountains they were in hot pursuit of us. In the wilderness they waited to ambush us.
²⁰ The life breath for our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord,^[a] was caught in their pits.
    We had said of him, “In his shadow we will live among the nations.”