Lamentations 4:17 “All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We…”

Lamentations 4:17

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

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

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

While we exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that] saveth not.

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“our eyes”

Ezekiel 29:16 2 Kings 24:7 Isaiah 20:5 Lamentations 1:19 Isaiah 30:1–7 Isaiah 31:1–3

Ezekiel 29:16 · BSB

Egypt will never again be an object of trust for the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity in turning to the Egyptians. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

2 Kings 24:7 · BSB

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

Isaiah 20:5 · BSB

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Lamentations 1:19 · BSB

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

Isaiah 30:1–7 · BSB

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

Isaiah 31:1–3 · BSB

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

Also

Lamentations 1:7

Lamentations 1:7 · BSB

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her do…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

18They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

Read Lamentations 4