Lamentations 4:18

18 Our enemies hunted us, so we could not even walk in the streets. Our end is near. Our time is up. Our end has 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 himself scattered them and did not look after them anymore. No one respects the priests or honors the older leaders.

17 Also, our eyes grew tired, looking for help that never came. We kept watch from our towers for a nation to save us.

18 Our enemies hunted us, so we could not even walk in the streets. Our end is near. Our time is up. Our end has come.

19 Those who chased us were faster than eagles in the sky. They ran us into the mountains and ambushed us in the desert.

20 The Lord's appointed king, who was our very breath, was caught in their traps. We had said about him, "We will be protected by him among the nations."