Lamentations 4:16-18

The Voice

¹⁶ Presence of the Eternal is overwhelming.
    God has scattered them to the winds.
He no longer held them in esteem:
    the priests received no honor, the elders no respect.

¹⁷ Quietly we waited for help until our eyes failed.
    We hoped and watched for a nation to rescue us.
But we waited in vain: no rescue came.

¹⁸ Routinely our steps were tracked
    so that we could not even walk our own streets.
This was it, our days at an end;
    we were done for.