Lamentations 4:18-20

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁸ Our enemies hunted us all the time.
    We could not even go out into the streets.
Our end came near. Our time was up.
    Our end came!
¹⁹ The men who chased us
    were faster than eagles in the sky.
They chased us into the mountains.
    They hid in the desert to catch us.
²⁰ The king was very important to us.
He was like the breath we breathe,
    but he was trapped by them.
The Lord himself chose the king,
    and we said this about the king,
“We will live in his shadow.
    He protects us from the nations.”