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Lamentations 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.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 4
17
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18
They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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.
20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
21
Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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