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. "
— Lamentations 4:17, American Standard Version
“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.”
“Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.”
“ע(Ayin)The People of Jerusalem Lament: Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.”
“Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.”
“Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.”
“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.”
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
Depart 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.
The 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.
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.