Lamentations 4:17
“Here is excluded a tendency for excluding four things which could be evaded. First, is the aid of friends. As was said: "Our eyes failed, ever watching": as we would expect, "vainly for help": from the Egyptians. As Isaiah 30:3 says: "Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the…”
Source: Septuagint
17While we yet lived our eyes failed, While we looked in vain for our help. We looked to a nation that could not save.
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15Depart ye from the unclean ones: Call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: For they are on fire, yea, they stagger: Say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
16The presence of the Lord was their portion; But he will not again look upon them: They regarded not the person of the priests, They pitied not the prophets.
— Lamentations 4:17 —
18We have hunted for our little ones, That they should not walk in our streets. Our time has drawn nigh, Our days are fulfilled, Our time is come.
19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, They flew on the mountains, In the wilderness they laid wait for us.