Lamentations 4:18-20

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁸ ⌞The enemy⌟ kept tracking us down,
so we couldn’t even go out into the streets.
Our end was near.
Our time was up.
Our end had come.
¹⁹ Those who were hunting us were faster than eagles in the sky.
They chased us in the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
²⁰ The person the Lord anointed ⌞as king⌟, who is the breath of our life,
was caught in their pits.
We had thought that we would live
in our king’s shadow among the nations.”