Lamentations 4:17

Modern English Version

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

The king of Egypt did not come again from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken over from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what are you doing in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the 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

Indeed, you shall go forth from him with your hands upon your head; for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, 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 perished in the city, while they sought food to restore their strength.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and misery Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one to help her. The adversaries saw her and mocked at her desolation.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hand to Egypt and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

It shall be the confidence of the house of Israel no more, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. But they shall know that I am the Lord God.