Lamentations 4:17

The Scriptures 2009

While we exist, our eyes are consumed, Watching vainly for our help. In our watch-tower we watched for a nation That could not save.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

And the sovereign of Mitsrayim did not come out of his land again, for the sovereign of Baḇel had taken all that belonged to the sovereign of Mitsrayim from the wadi of Mitsrayim to the River Euphrates.

Isaiah 20:5

“And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush, their expectation, and of Mitsrayim, their boast.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision with She’ol not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

Jeremiah 2:18

“And now why take the way to Mitsrayim, to drink the waters of Shiḥor? Or why take the way to Ashshur, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 2:36

“Why do you go about so much to change your way? Even of Mitsrayim you are to be ashamed, as you were ashamed of Ashshur.

Jeremiah 2:37

“Even from this one you shall go forth, with your hands on your head. For יהוה has rejected those you trust, and you shall not prosper by them.

Jeremiah 8:20

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we have not been saved!”

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 bring back their life.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and wandering, Yerushalayim remembered all her precious matters 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, They mocked at her destruction.

Lamentations 5:6

To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

“And no longer is it to be the refuge of the house of Yisra’ĕl, bringing to remembrance their crookedness when they turned to follow them. And they shall know that I am the Master יהוה.” ’ ”