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

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, and laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:17 He showeth two principal causes of their destruction: their cruelty and their vain confidence in man: for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians.

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