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Lamentations Chapter 4 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 4:17

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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BBE Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
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DARBY Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
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KJV Lamentations 4:17

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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WBT Lamentations 4:17

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WEB Lamentations 4:17

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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YLT Lamentations 4:17

While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - As for us, our eyes, etc.; rather (correcting the reading of the first word), Our eyes were still wasting away (as we looked) for our help in vain. To the very last the Jews leaned on "that broken reed," Egypt (Isaiah 36:6); how vain that hope would be Jeremiah had already told them (Jeremiah 37:7, 8). In our watching; i.e. earnestly and continually; or, on our watchtower.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) As for us . . .--Better, Still do our eyes waste away, looking for our vain help.In our watching.--Better, upon our watch-tower. (Comp. Habakkuk 2:1.) The people of Judah are represented as looking out for the approach of an ally, probably Egypt (Jeremiah 37:7), and looking in vain.