Lamentations 4:17-19

World English Bible

¹⁷ Our eyes still fail,
    looking in vain for our help.
    In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

¹⁸ They hunt our steps,
    so that we can’t go in our streets.
Our end is near.
    Our days are fulfilled,
    for our end has come.

¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
    They chased us on the mountains.
    They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.