Lamentations 4:19
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.Select Lamentations 4:17
18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.Select Lamentations 4:18
19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.Select Lamentations 4:19
20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.Select Lamentations 4:20
21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.Select Lamentations 4:21
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WEB
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
ASV
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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