Lamentations 4:17

New King James Version

Still our eyes failed us, Watching vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation that could not save us.

Cross References

Ezekiel 29:16

No longer shall it be the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.” ’ ”

Isaiah 20:5

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

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.

Lamentations 1:19

“I called for my lovers, But they deceived me; My priests and my elders Breathed their last in the city, While they sought food To restore their life.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her And mocked at her downfall.

Jeremiah 8:20

“The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!”

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you gad about so much to change your way? Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the River?

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

Jeremiah 2:37

Indeed you will go forth from him With your hands on your head; For the Lord has rejected your trusted allies, And you will not prosper by them.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.