Lamentations 4:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

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

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

What then do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you go about so much to change your way? You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

From there also you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper through them.

Jeremiah 8:20

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city while seeking food to revive their lives.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers all the precious things that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy and there was no one to help her, the enemy looked on; they mocked over her downfall.

Lamentations 5:6

We have made a pact with Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

The Egyptians shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel; they will recall their iniquity when they turned to them for aid. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.