17. For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer.We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.
18. The enemy was watching for us; we could not even walk in the streets.Our days were over; the end had come.
19. Swifter than eagles swooping from the sky, they chased us down.They tracked us down in the hills; they took us by surprise in the desert.
20. They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen,the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.