Lamentations 4:17

Modern King James Version

While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; 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 any more. 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 hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be wiped out, and your vision with hell shall not stand; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by 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 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

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 expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and her wandering Jerusalem remembered all her desirable things from previous days; when her people fell into the hand of the foe; and there is no ally for her. The foes saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.

Lamentations 5:6

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

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall never again be the hope of the house of Israel, recalling the iniquity of their turning after them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.