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Lamentations 4:17

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our eyes: Lamentations 1:19; 2 Kings 24:7; Isaiah 20:5, Isaiah 30:1-7, Isaiah 31:1-3; Jeremiah 2:18, Jeremiah 2:36, Jeremiah 8:20; Jeremiah 37:7-10; Ezekiel 29:6-7, Ezekiel 29:16

for a: For the Egyptians, who were their pretended allies; but who were neither able nor willing to help them.

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