Lamentations 4:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Men dogged our steps
    so that we were unable to walk in our streets.
Our end drew near; our days were numbered;
    our time had come.
¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter
    than eagles in the heavens.
They hounded us over the mountains
    and lay in ambush for us in the wilderness.
²⁰ The Lord’s anointed,^[a] our breath of life,
    was caught in their traps,
he in whose shadow we thought
    that we could live in safety among the nations.