Lamentations 4:17

Lighthouse Bible 2006

As for us, our eyes continually failed looking 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 to the river Euphrates all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

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

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be abolished, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

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

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you gad 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 out from him, and your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences, 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 gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and 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 no one helped her: the adversaries saw her, and mocked at her sabbaths.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our 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, bringing their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look to them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.