Lamentations 4:18

“They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets, etc.] 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…”

“They--the Chaldeans. cannot go--without danger.”

“A rapid sketch of the last days of the siege and the capture of the king. Lamentations 4:17 Rather, “Still do our eyes waste away looking for our vain help.” In our watching - Or, “on our watchtower.” Lamentations 4:18 Or, They hunted “our steps that we could not go out into the streets. To hunt” means here to lie in ambush, and catch by snares; and the streets are literally “the wide places,” especially at the gates. Toward the end of the siege the towers erected by the enemy would command these places. Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are ... - Our pursuers (Lamentations 1:3 note) “were swifter thorn the eagles of heaven.” They pursued us - Or, they chased us. Mountains ... wilderness -…”

“They - The Chaldeans. Lamentations 4:20”

“hunt: Lam 3:52; Sa1 24:14; Kg2 25:4, Kg2 25:5; Job 10:16; Psa 140:11; Jer 16:16; Jer 39:4, Jer 39:5, Jer 52:7-9 our end is near: Jer 1:12, Jer 51:33; Eze 7:2-12, Eze 12:22, Eze 12:23, Eze 12:27; Amo 8:2 Lamentations 4:19”