Lamentations 4:17-19

New International Reader's Version

¹⁷ And that’s not all. Our eyes grew tired.
    We looked for help that never came.
We watched from our towers.
    We kept looking for a nation that couldn’t save us.

¹⁸ People hunted us down no matter where we went.
    We couldn’t even walk in our streets.
Our end was near, so we only had a few days to live.
    Our end had come.

¹⁹ Those who were hunting us down were faster
    than eagles in the sky.
They chased us over the mountains.
    They hid and waited for us in the desert.