King James Version with Apocrypha
"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."
— Lamentations 4:17, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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. ”
“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.”
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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 hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.