Lamentations 4:15-17

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¹⁵ “·Go away [Turn aside]! ·You are unclean [^LUnclean!; ^Cin a ritual sense],” people shouted at them.
    “·Get away [Turn aside]! ·Get away [Turn aside]! Don’t touch us!”
So they ran away and wandered.
    Even the other nations said, “Don’t stay here.”

¹⁶ The Lord himself ·scattered [dispersed] them
    and did not ·look after [regard] them anymore.
No one respects the priests
    or ·honors [has favor for] the elders.

¹⁷ Also, our eyes ·grew tired [failed],
    looking for help ·that never came [in vain; without purpose; 2:11; Ps. 69:3; 119:82, 123].
We kept watch ·from our towers [or eagerly]
    for a nation ·to save us [^Lthat could not save us/give us victory; ^CJudah had hoped that Egypt would rescue them from Babylon; Jer. 2:18, 36].