Lamentations 4:17

American Standard Version

Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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Lamentations 4:17 in other translations

Our eyes still fail,
looking in vain for our help.
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Lamentations 4:17 · World English Bible

Lamentations 4:17 in context

  1. 15Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.
  2. 16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
  3. 17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  4. 18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
  5. 19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.