Lamentations 4:18-20

18Our steps were closely followed so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end approached; our time ran out. Our end had come!

19Those who chased us were swifter than eagles in the sky; they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

20The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their traps. We had said about him, “We will live under his protection among the nations.”