Lamentations 4:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer.
    We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.

¹⁸ The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets.
    Our days were over; the end had come.

¹⁹ Swifter than eagles swooping from the sky, they chased us down.
    They tracked us down in the hills; they took us by surprise in the desert.