Lamentations 4:17

God's Word

“We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn’t save us.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

The king of Egypt didn’t leave his own country again because the king of Babylon had taken all the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River. This territory had belonged to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

Then the people will be shattered and ashamed because Sudan was their hope and Egypt was their beauty.

Isaiah 28:18

Your treaty with death will be wiped away. Your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming disaster passes by, you will be trampled by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

You won’t gain anything by going to Egypt to drink water from the Nile River. You won’t gain anything by going to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates River.

Jeremiah 2:36

You change your mind so easily. You will be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

You will also leave this place with your hands over your head, because the Lord has rejected those you trust. You will not be helped by them.”

Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we haven’t been saved.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for those who love me, but they betrayed me. My priests and leaders breathed their last breath in the city, looking for food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 1:7

“Now, during its suffering and oppression, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures it had from ancient times, when its people fell into the power of their enemies with no one to help them. Their opponents looked on, and they laughed at Jerusalem’s downfall.

Lamentations 5:6

We had to beg Egypt and Assyria for food.

Ezekiel 29:16

The nation of Israel will never trust Egypt again. The people of Israel will remember how wrong they were whenever they turned to Egypt ⌞for help⌟. Then they will know that I am the Almighty Lord.’ ”