Lamentations 4:17-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ While we waited in vain for help, our eyes failed. For in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not save us.

¹⁸ They hunt our steps, so that we cannot walk in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

¹⁹ Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the sky. They pursued us upon the mountains and laid in wait for us in the wilderness.