Lamentations Chapter 4 verse 18 Holy Bible
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
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They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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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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They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - They hunt our steps, etc. Realistic attempts to explain this line have not been wanting, but seem unsuccessful. The Chaldeans were either within the city or without. If within, they would not need literally to "hunt the steps" of the Jews; if without, they had not war engines adequate to shooting the inhabitants at some distance. Probably the expressions are metaphorical; they are similar to those used in Lamentations 3:52, immediately after which we meet with such a purely poetical phrase as, "They have cut off my life in the pit [Authorized Version, 'dungeon'], and cast a stone upon me" (see note on Lamentations 3:52-56).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) They hunt our steps.--Better, They lie in wait. The words probably point to the posts occupied here and there near the wide places of the city, which led people to avoid them through fear of being attacked. The only cry possible at such a time was that "all was over."
