Lamentations 4:17-22

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for ^[a]help was ^(A)useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a ^(B)nation that could not save.
¹⁸ They ^(C)hunted our steps
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our ^(D)end drew near,
Our days were ^[b]finished
For our end had come.
¹⁹ Our pursuers were ^(E)swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
²⁰ The ^(F)breath of our nostrils, the ^(G)Lord’s anointed,
Was ^(H)captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his ^(I)shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of ^(J)Edom,
Who dwells in the land of Uz;
But the ^(K)cup will come around to you as well,
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
²² The punishment of your iniquity has been ^(L)completed, O daughter of Zion;
He will exile you no longer.
But He ^(M)will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
He will expose your sins!