SinaiLamentations 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 in context
- 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.
- 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.
- 17Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
- 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.
- 19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.