Lam.4.17

Lamentations 4:17

KJV

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

The Distress of Zion

Cross References

Jeremiah 37:7

KJV GOD

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah

Lamentations 1:7

KJV

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

How Lonely Lies the City!

Ezekiel 29:6

KJV GOD

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

A Prophecy against Pharaoh

Ezekiel 29:7

KJV GOD

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.