Lamentations 4:17

King James 2000

As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

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

Isaiah 20:5

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

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 you shall be beaten down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why gad you about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

Yea, you shall go forth from him, with your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your trusted ones, and you shall not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 8:20

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

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Lamentations 5:6

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

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.