Lamentations 4:15-17

New International Reader's Version

¹⁵ “Go away! You are ‘unclean’!”
    people cry out to them.
“Go away! Get out of here!
    Don’t touch us!”
So they run away and wander around.
    Then people among the nations say,
    “They can’t stay here anymore.”

¹⁶ The Lord himself has scattered them.
    He doesn’t watch over them anymore.
No one shows the priests any respect.
    No one honors the elders.

¹⁷ And that’s not all. Our eyes grew tired.
    We looked for help that never came.
We watched from our towers.
    We kept looking for a nation that couldn’t save us.