Lamentations 4:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

Cross References

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall be no more to the house of Israel for trust, bringing iniquity to remembrance in their turning after them: and they shall know that am the Lord Jehovah.

Isaiah 20:5

And they were dismayed and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt added no more to come forth from his land, for the king of Babel took from the torrent of Egypt, even to the river Phrath, all which was to the king of Eygpt

Lamentations 1:19

I called to those loving me, they deceived me: my priests and my old men expired in the city, for they sought food for them, and they will turn back their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and her wanderings, all her delights which were from the days of old in the falling of her people into the hand of the enemy, and none helping for her: the adversaries saw her; they laughed at her calamities.

Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest passed by, the summer was completed, and we were not saved.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what to thee for the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Sihor? and what to thee to the way of Amur, to drink the water of the river?

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death was obliterated, and your league with hades shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through and ye. were for a treading down to it

Jeremiah 2:37

Also from this thou wilt go forth and thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah rejected thy trusts and thou shalt not give success to them.

Lamentations 5:6

We gave the hand to Egypt, to Assur, to be filled with bread.