Lamentations 4:18 meaning and explanation
They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!
Lamentations 4:18, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
The speaker is the community of Jerusalem, looking back on the siege by Babylon that ended in the city's fall in 586 BC. The watchers here are the pursuers, the enemy who tracked the people's every movement, so that ordinary streets became unsafe to walk.
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