Lamentations 4:17-20 - The People Of Zion Speak Out
17 Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.
18 They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished}, our end has come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations."