Lamentations 4:17-20 - The People Of Zion Speak Out
17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.