They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!
They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.
They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC