Lamentations 4:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸ The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets.
    Our days were over; the end had come.

¹⁹ Swifter than eagles swooping from the sky, they chased us down.
    They tracked us down in the hills; they took us by surprise in the desert.

²⁰ They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen,
    the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.