Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
The verse gives voice to terror and the sense of being trapped, joined with desolation and destruction falling upon the people. It belongs to the ruin that overtook the country in Jeremiah's day. That ruin was not unforeseen, for Jeremiah had looked ahead to it before it came. When it arrived, fear and the snare, desolation and destruction, were the people's shared portion amid the wreckage.
The verse gives voice to terror and the sense of being trapped, joined with desolation and destruction falling upon the people. It belongs to the ruin that overtook the country in Jeremiah's day. That ruin was not unforeseen, for Jeremiah had looked ahead to it before it came. When it arrived, fear and the snare, desolation and destruction, were the people's shared portion amid the wreckage.