Lamentations 4:15-17

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁵ ‘Get away! You’re unclean,’ ^[a] people yelled at them.
‘Get away! Get away! Don’t touch anyone.’
When they fled and wandered around,
the people of the nations said, ‘They can’t stay here any longer.’
¹⁶ The Lord himself has scattered them.
He will no longer look favorably on them.
They no longer respected the priests,
nor did they honor their older leaders.”

¹⁷ “We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help.
We waited and waited for a nation that didn’t save us.