Lamentations 4:19
“Here thirdly a remedy in flight is excluded. Here is touched upon the account in the last part of Jeremiah (Chapter 52: "Judah Taken Captive at Babylon"). Then the Chaldeans captured Zedekiah (King of Judah) fleeing on a path to a wilderness, or solitude. As in the hyperbolic language of Habakkuk 1:8 states: "they fly…”
Source: Septuagint
19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, They flew on the mountains, In the wilderness they laid wait for us.
Preparing…
Preparing…
Preparing…
17While we yet lived our eyes failed, While we looked in vain for our help. We looked to a nation that could not save.
18We have hunted for our little ones, That they should not walk in our streets. Our time has drawn nigh, Our days are fulfilled, Our time is come.
— Lamentations 4:19 —
20The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, Was taken in their destructive snares, Of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.
21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, That dwellest in the land: Yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: Thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.