They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Gill's Exposition
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets,.... The Chaldeans, from their forts and batteries, as they could see, they watched the people as they came out of their houses, and walked about…
A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king. Lam 4:17 Rather, “Still do our eyes waste away looking for our vain help.” In our watching - Or, “on our watchtower.” Lam 4:18…
Adam Clarke
We cannot go in our streets - Supposed to refer to the darts and other missiles cast from the mounds which they had raised on the outside of the walls, by which those who walked in the streets were…
We have here,
I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it (Lam 4:13, Lam 4:14): It is for the sins of her prophets, and…
Cambridge Bible
They hunt our steps This expresses the danger which existed in the "streets" (lit. broad places, and therefore exposed) from the towers which were gradually advanced nearer to the walls by the…
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