Midrash sa Jeremias 37:7: Eikhah Rabbah & Pesikta Rabbati

“Even now, our eyes fail toward futile help. In our waiting, we awaited a nation that cannot save” (Lamentations 4:17).
“Even now, our eyes fail.” What would the Ten Tribes do? They would send oil to Egypt, and bring grain and send it to Babylon, so if enemies would come they would be there for them to assist them. That is what is written: “They seal a covenant with Assyria and oil is transported to Egypt” (Hosea 12:2). Once, the enemies came, and they sent to Pharaoh Nekho, who was sailing on the Great Sea.⁴⁴The Mediterranean. He was on his way to assist them. The Holy One blessed be He intimated to their skeletons,⁴⁵God intimated to the skeletons that they should float to the surface of the water. These were skeletons of people who had drowned at sea. This was in order to remind the Egyptians of the Egyptians who had drowned in the Sea of Reeds when Israel left Egypt. and they were floating on the water’s surface. They said to each other: ‘What is the nature of these skeletons?’ He said to them: ‘The ancestors of these⁴⁶The Israelites. were subjugated to your ancestors and they arose and drowned them in the sea.’ They said: ‘They did this to our ancestors and we will go and assist them?’ Immediately, they returned. That is what is written: “Behold, Pharaoh's army, that came out to you for assistance, is returning to its land, Egypt” (Jeremiah 37:7). That is why it is stated: “In our waiting, we awaited a nation that cannot save.”

... Jeremiah said: when I was coming up to Jerusalem, I lifted up my eyes and saw a woman sitting on the mountaintop, her clothes were black and her hair unkempt. She cried: I am seeking who will comfort me! And I cried: I am seeking who will comfort me! I came near and spoke with her, and I said to her: if you are a woman, then speak with me. If you are a spirit, then go away from me. She answered and said to me: Do you not recognize me? I am the one who had seven children. Their father went away to a land across the sea and as I was going up to cry for him, a prophet said to me ‘the house collapsed on your seven children and killed them.’ I do not know for whom I am crying and for whom my hair is unkempt.I answered and said to her: you are no better than my mother Zion, who was made a pasture for the beasts of the field. She answered and said to me: I am your mother Zion, I am she – the mother of seven, so it is written “She who bore seven has been cut off…” (Jeremiah 15:9) Jeremiah said to her: the blows you have received are like those of Job. Job’s sons and daughters were taken from him, your sons and daughters were taken from you. From Job I took his silver and gold, from you I have taken your silver and gold. I cast Job into the trash heap, you I have made into a heap of trash. And just as I came back and consoled Job, so too in the future I will return and console you. I doubled Job’s sons and daughters, and in the future I will double your sons and daughters. I doubled Job’s gold and silver, and in the future I will do so for you. I shook the trash from Job, and of you it is said “Shake yourselves from the dust, arise, sit down, O Jerusalem…” (Isaiah 52:2) Flesh and blood built you and flesh and blood destroyed you. But In the time to come I will build you, because thus it is written “The Lord is the builder of Jerusalem; He will gather the outcasts of Israel.” (Psalms 147:2) Amen! May the Holy One fulfill what is written about us speedily and in our day “And the redeemed of Zion shall return, and they shall come to Zion with song, with joy of days of yore shall be upon their heads; they shall achieve gladness and joy, and sadness and sighing shall flee.” (Isaiah 35:10)