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They hunt our steps, so that we can`t go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Trapped in Their Own City
Commentators explain that "they hunt our steps" describes a literal, terrifying reality. During the final days of the siege of Jerusalem, Babylonian soldiers set up posts and siege towers overlooking the city's streets and open squares. This meant that the people of Judah were effectively sniped at and ambushed, unable to even walk in their own city without risking their lives.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
They hunt our steps. — Better, They lie in wait. The words probably point to the posts occupied here and there near the wide plac…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
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