Lamentations 4:16-20

The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to look at them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; At our observation point we have watched For a nation that could not save.

They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, Our days were finished For our end had come.

Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the sky; They chased us on the mountains, They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, “In his shadow We shall live among the nations.”