Lamentations 4:18-20

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁸ They keep dogging our steps,
so that we can’t go out in our streets.
Our end is near, our time is up;
yes, our end has come.

¹⁹ Those who pursued us were swifter
than eagles in the sky.
They chased us over the mountains
and waylaid us in the desert.

²⁰ Adonai’s anointed, our life-breath,
was caught in their pits;
though of him we had said, “Under his protection,
we can live among the nations.”