Lamentations 4:20
The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- breath
- Lamentations 2:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 44:30; 2 Samuel 18:3
- the anointed
- 1 Samuel 12:3, 5; 1 Samuel 16:6; 1 Samuel 24:6, 10; 1 Samuel 26:9, 16; 2 Samuel 1:14, 21; 2 Samuel 19:21; Psalm 89:20, 21
- was taken
- Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:8; Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 17:18; Ezekiel 19:4–8