Lamentations 4:17-19

American Standard Version

¹⁷ Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help:
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
¹⁸ They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets:
Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:
They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.