^{17 Ref} Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

^{18 Ref} They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

^{19 Ref} Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

^{20 Ref} The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.