Lamentations 4:17

Young's Literal Translation 1862

While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt hath not added any more to go out from his own land, for the king of Babylon hath taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Phrat, all that had been to the king of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5

and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their confidence, and of Egypt their beauty,

Isaiah 28:18

And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 2:36

What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashamed of Asshur,

Jeremiah 2:37

Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For Jehovah hath kicked at thy confidences, And thou dost not give prosperity to them!

Jeremiah 8:20

Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

Lamentations 1:7

Remembered hath Jerusalem `In' the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

Lamentations 5:6

`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 29:16

And it is no more to the house of Israel for a confidence, Bringing iniquity to remembrance, By their turning after them, And they have known that I `am' the Lord Jehovah.'