Lamentations 4:17-20

17Even now our eyes waste away looking in vain for our help. From our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

18They hunted our steps, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near. Our days were numbered, for our end had come.

19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

20The anointed of Adonai, the breath of our nostrils, was captured in their pits, of whom we have said, “Under His shadow we will live among the nations.”