A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king.

(Lamentations 4:17) Rather, Still do our eyes wast…

They hunt our steps. — Better, They lie in wait. The words probably point to the posts occupied here and there near the wide plac…

Many apply this verse to the Egyptians, saying that they deceptively enticed the Jews to flee to them in their difficulties. It is indeed true that…

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets
The Chaldeans, from their forts and batteries, as they could s…

Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…

Second, he excludes help from their own forces: our steps have slipped, as if from weakness we could not stand firmly, and as if th…