Lamentations 4:17

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Cross References (12)

  • Ezekiel 29:16 (5)

    Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning

  • 2 Kings 24:7 (3)

    Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from

  • Isaiah 20:5 (3)

    Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

  • Jeremiah 8:20 (2)

    “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

  • Jeremiah 2:18 (2)

    Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria t

  • Jeremiah 2:36 (2)

    How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

  • Lamentations 1:19 (2)

    I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for

  • Lamentations 1:7 (2)

    In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When he

  • Ezekiel 29:6–7 (2)

    Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.

  • Isaiah 30:1–7 (2)

    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an allian

  • Isaiah 31:1–3 (2)

    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their mu

  • Jeremiah 37:7–10 (2)

    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Phar