Lamentations 4:18

18 The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets. Our days were over; the end had come.

Lamentations 4:18 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 4:18

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 the streets, and shot their arrows at them; so that they were obliged to keep within doors, and not stir out, which they could not do without great danger: our end is near, for our days are fulfilled; for our end is come;
either the end of their lives, the days, months, and years appointed for them being fulfilled; or the end of their commonwealth, the end of their civil and church state, at least as they thought; the time appointed for their destruction was not only near at hand, but was actually come; it was all over with them.

Lamentations 4:18 In-Context

16 The Lord had no more concern for them; he scattered them himself. He showed no regard for our priests and leaders.

17 For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.

18 The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets. Our days were over; the end had come.

19 Swifter than eagles swooping from the sky, they chased us down. They tracked us down in the hills; they took us by surprise in the desert.

20 They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.