Ekhah 4:17-19

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁷ As for us, our eyes failed looking in vain for ezratenu (our help); from our towers we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

¹⁸ They stalk our steps, that we cannot go in our streets; kitzeinu (our end) is near, our yamim are numbered; for kitzeinu is come.

¹⁹ Our pursuers are swifter than the eagles of Shomayim; they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the midbar.