This sentence is not only a conclusion drawn from the previously enumerated symptoms of exile; in addition, it is in itself one of the signs of exile.

One of the difficulties of being in exile is that Jews imagine that there is nothing they can do to light up its darkness. So they sit passively with arms folded and declare: "Upon whom can we rely? -- Upon our Father Who is in heaven." They would simply leave it to G-d to end the exile and to bring about the Redemption.