Lamentations 4:18-20

International Children’s Bible

¹⁸ Our enemies hunted us
    so we could not even walk in the streets.
Our end came near. Our time was up.
    Our end came.

¹⁹ The men who chased us
    were faster than eagles in the sky.
They ran us into the mountains.
    They ambushed us in the desert.

²⁰ The Lord’s appointed king, who was our very breath,
    was caught in their traps.
We had said about him, “We will be protected by him
    among the nations.”