Lamentations 4:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

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

Isaiah 20:5

Then they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia 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

And now what 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

How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the Lord 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 to my lovers but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and bitterness all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, the foe gloated over her, mocking at her downfall.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”