“Secondly is excluded their own strengths. As said: "Men dogged our steps, so that we could not walk in the streets." That is, as if we were unable to stand upright, due to our weakness, as if the streets were dark and slippery. As Psalm 35:6 says: "Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuin…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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18They 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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16The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
— Lamentations 4:18 —
19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.