Lamentations 4:19

World English Bible

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
They chased us on the mountains.
They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

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Lamentations 4:19 in other translations

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 4:19 in context

  1. 17Our eyes still fail,
    looking in vain for our help.
    In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  2. 18They hunt our steps,
    so that we can’t go in our streets.
    Our end is near.
    Our days are fulfilled,
    for our end has come.
  3. 19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
    They chased us on the mountains.
    They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
  4. 20The breath of our nostrils,
    the anointed of Yahweh,
    was taken in their pits;
    of whom we said,
    under his shadow we will live among the nations.
  5. 21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
    that dwells in the land of Uz.
    The cup will pass through to you also.
    You will be drunken,
    and will make yourself naked.