Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
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Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
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Lamentations 4:18
They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
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Jeremiah 37:7
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.
Isaiah 30:2
Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.
Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
Isaiah 30:4
For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
Isaiah 30:5
For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.
Isaiah 30:6
The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
Isaiah 30:7
For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.
Isaiah 31:1
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
Isaiah 31:3
For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
Ezekiel 29:6
And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 29:7
When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.
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Psalms 69:3
I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
Psalms 119:82
My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Psalms 119:123
My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
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