Lamentations 4:15-17

International Standard Version

¹⁵ “Go away! Unclean!”
    they shouted at them.
        “Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!”
When they fled away and wandered,
    those among the nations decreed,
        “They cannot live here!”

¹⁶ The Lord himself separated them;
    he will do nothing more for them.
They did not respect their own priests;
    they did not honor their elders.

¹⁷ Our eyes failed,
    searching in vain for hope;
we kept watching and looking
    for a nation that would not help.