Lamentations 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation could not save .
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15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn .
16 The anger of the Yahuah has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation could not save .
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.