Lamentations 4:17

New International Reader's Version

And that’s not all. Our eyes grew tired. We looked for help that never came. We watched from our towers. We kept looking for a nation that couldn’t save us.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

The king of Egypt didn’t march out from his own country again. That’s because the king of Babylon had taken so much of his territory. It reached from the Wadi of Egypt all the way to the Euphrates River.

Isaiah 20:5

People trusted in Cush to help them. They bragged about what Egypt could do for them. But they will lose heart and be put to shame.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be called off. The agreement you made with the place of the dead will not stand. When the terrible plague comes to punish you, you will be struck down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

Why do you go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile River? Why do you go to Assyria to drink from the Euphrates River?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you keep on changing your ways so much? Assyria did not help you. And Egypt will not help you either.

Jeremiah 2:37

So you will also leave Egypt with your hands tied together above your heads. I have turned my back on those you trust. They will not help you.

Jeremiah 8:20

The people say, “The harvest is over. The summer has ended. And we still haven’t been saved.”

Lamentations 1:19

“I called out to those who were going to help me. But they turned against me. My priests and elders died in the city. They were searching for food just to stay alive.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem’s people are suffering and wandering. They remember all the treasures they used to have. But they fell into the hands of their enemies. And no one was there to help them. Their enemies looked at them. They laughed because Jerusalem had been destroyed.

Lamentations 5:6

We put ourselves under the control of Egypt and Assyria just to get enough bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

The people of Israel will no longer trust in Egypt. Instead, Egypt will remind them of how they sinned when they turned to it for help. Then they will know that I am the Lord and King.”