Lamentations 4:17

A Conservative Version

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Cross References

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them. And they shall know that I am lord LORD.

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their confidence, and of Egypt their glory.

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt did not come again any more out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my loved ones, [but] they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none helped her, the adversaries saw her; they m

Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do thou gad about so much to change thy way? Thou shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou were ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what have thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Jeremiah 2:37

Thou shall also go forth from there with thy hands upon thy head. For LORD has rejected those in whom thou trust. And thou shall not prosper with them.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.