Lamentations 4:17-20

17Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

18They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

20The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."