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Lamentations 4:19

19  Our pursuers were sswifter

than the eagles in the heavens;

they chased us on the mountains;

they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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Lamentations 4:19 — The New International Version (NIV)

19 Our pursuers were swifter

than eagles in the sky;

they chased us over the mountains

and lay in wait for us in the desert.

Lamentations 4:19 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:

They pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — New Living Translation (NLT)

19 Our enemies were swifter than eagles in flight.

If we fled to the mountains, they found us.

If we hid in the wilderness,

they were waiting for us there.

Lamentations 4:19 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

19 Our pursuers were swifter

Than the eagles of the heavens.

They pursued us on the mountains

And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — New Century Version (NCV)

19 Those who chased us

were faster than eagles in the sky.

They ran us into the mountains

and ambushed us in the desert.

Lamentations 4:19 — American Standard Version (ASV)

19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:

They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

19 Those who were hunting us were faster than eagles in the sky. 

They chased us in the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness. 

Lamentations 4:19 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

19 Those who chased us were swifter

than eagles in the sky;

they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains

and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

19 Our pursuers were swifter

than the eagles in the heavens;

they chased us on the mountains,

they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

19 Our pursuers were swifter

than the eagles of the heavens;

they chased us on the mountains,

they have set an ambush for us in the desert.

Lamentations 4:19 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

19 Those who were hunting us down were faster

than eagles in the sky.

They chased us over the mountains.

They hid and waited for us in the desert.

Lamentations 4:19 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

19 Our pursuers were swifter

Than the eagles of the sky;

They chased us on the mountains,

They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.


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