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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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The King's Final Flight
Commentators widely agree that this verse describes the historical event of King Zedekiah's desperate flight from Jerusalem. The 'pursuers' were the swift Chaldean army, and the 'mountains' and 'wilderness' refer to the actual terrain of his escape route toward Jericho, where he was ultimately captured.
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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
Our persecutors. —Better, Our pursuers, the words referring to the Chaldean enemies rather than to persecutors in the mod…
16th Century
Protestant
Here, then, the Prophet means that the Jews were so confined that there was no escape for them, because their steps were observed by their enemies,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heavens , &c.] That fly in the heavens; and which, as they have a quic…
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
Third, he excludes the remedy of flight. Here he touches upon the history that is told in Jeremiah 52, when the Chaldeans surrounded Zedekiah fleei…
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