Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help.In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.TZADE
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Isaiah 20:5They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 30:1"Woe to the rebellious children," says the Lord, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
Jeremiah 2:18Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:37From there also you shall go forth, with your hands on your head; for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
Jeremiah 37:7"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
Lamentations 1:19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me.My priests and my elders perished in the city,while they searched for food to refresh their souls.RESH
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21
Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided… Read the whole commentary →