Lamentaciones 4:18

Tsade

18 A cada paso nos acechan;no podemos ya andar por las calles.Nuestro fin se acerca, nos ha llegado la hora;¡nuestros días están contados!

Lamentaciones 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.

Lamentaciones 4:18 In-Context

16 El SEÑOR mismo los ha dispersado;ya no se preocupa por ellos.Ya no hay respeto para los sacerdotesni compasión para los ancianos.

17 Para colmo, desfallecen nuestros ojosesperando en vano que alguien nos ayude.Desde nuestras torres estamos en esperade una nación que no puede salvarnos.

18 A cada paso nos acechan;no podemos ya andar por las calles.Nuestro fin se acerca, nos ha llegado la hora;¡nuestros días están contados!

19 Nuestros perseguidores resultaronmás veloces que las águilas del cielo;nos persiguieron por las montañas,nos acecharon en el desierto.

20 También cayó en sus redes el ungido del SEÑOR,que era nuestra razón de vivir.Era él de quien decíamos:¡Viviremos bajo su sombra entre las naciones!