Lamentations 4:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵ ‘Away! Unclean!’ people shouted at them;
    ‘Away! Away! Do not touch!’
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
    it was said among the nations,
    ‘They shall stay here no longer.’

¹⁶ The Lord himself has scattered them,
    he will regard them no more;
no honour was shown to the priests,
    no favour to the elders.

¹⁷ Our eyes failed, ever watching
    vainly for help;
we were watching eagerly
    for a nation that could not save.