Lamentations 4:17

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

While we exist, our eyes fail for our vain help. In our watching, we have watched for a nation; it does not save.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River, all that was to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

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

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be covered; and your vision with Sheol shall not rise up. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you shall be for a trampling to it.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates River?

Jeremiah 2:36

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

Jeremiah 2:37

Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Jeremiah 8:20

Harvest has passed; the summer has ended, and we are not delivered.

Lamentations 1:19

I called to ones loving me; they deceived me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, while they sought food for them to bring back their soul.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and her wanderings, Jerusalem remembers all her desirable things from previous days in the falling of her people into the hand of the oppressive one, and there is no ally for her. The oppressive ones saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, to the Assyrian, in order to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall not be any more as confidence for the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.