Lamentations 4:17-20

17Our eyes became red as we watched. We were looking for help, but it did not come. The people from other countries could not save us.

18Enemies ran after us, so that we could not go into the streets any longer. We knew that we would die soon. We could not live like this any longer.

19The enemy was quicker than big birds that fly in the air. They followed us so that they could catch us out on the mountains. They hid and they waited for us in the desert.

20The Lord had chosen a man to be our king. We thought that he would save us. ‘Under his shadow we will live among the other countries,’ we had always said. But the enemy caught him.