Lamentations 4:15-17

Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ “Turn away! Unclean!”
    They cry to them.
“Turn away, turn away! Don’t touch!”
    So they fled and wandered about.
People among the nations say,
    “They can stay here no longer.”
¹⁶ Adonai Himself has scattered them.
    He will look on them no more.
They did not respect the kohanim.
    They did not favor the elders.
¹⁷ Even now our eyes waste away
    looking in vain for our help.
From our towers we watched
    for a nation that could not save us.