Lamentations 4:15-17

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁵ They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean;
depart, depart, touch not:
when they fled away and wandered,
they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
¹⁶ The anger of the Lord hath divided them;
he will no more regard them:
they respected not the persons of the priests,
they favoured not the elders.

¹⁷ As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help:
in our watching we have watched
for a nation that could not save us.