Verse Lens · Context pointer
Lamentations 4:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Role in This Section
This verse describes hunters making streets unsafe and the community's end feel complete.
Read It With
- Lamentations 4:17-20
Read Lamentations 4:18 with 4:17-20. This verse describes hunters making streets unsafe and the community's end feel complete. The complete unit establishes this movement: The community's eyes fail while watching for foreign help that cannot save; survivors are hunted until their end feels complete, and the anointed ruler under whose shadow they expected to live among nations is captured.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Lamentations 4:17-20. The surrounding alphabet stanza supplies the complete lament movement summarized here: The community's eyes fail while watching for foreign help that cannot save; survivors are hunted until their end feels complete, and the anointed ruler under whose shadow they expected to live among nations is captured.
Continue in Context
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Read Lamentations 4:17-20 — Failed Foreign Help and the Captured Anointed RulerSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed Scripture, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and canonical verse coverage.
Exact location: Lamentations 4:17-20, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Lamentations
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, alphabet sequence, person and number, repeated vocabulary, and translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lam.xml, OSIS Lam.4.17-Lam.4.20
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