Lamentations 4:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

Cross References

Ezekiel 29:16

And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.

Lamentations 1:19

Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined away in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand and there was no helper: the enemies have seen her and have mocked at her sabbaths.

Jeremiah 8:20

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

Jeremiah 2:36

How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! And thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?

Isaiah 28:18

And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.

Jeremiah 2:37

For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing prosperous therein.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.