Lamentations 4:17 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁷ Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ As for us, our eyes yet failed and wasted away in looking for our worthless help. In our watching [on our watchtower] we have watched and waited expectantly for a nation [Egypt or some other one to come to our rescue] that could not save us. [Ezek. 29:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Our eyes continually failed, looking for some help, but for nothing. From our watchtower we watched for a nation that doesn’t save.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ AIN. While we were still standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively toward a nation that was not able to save.

Lamentations 4:17 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Ezekiel 29:16

And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”

Isaiah 20:5

Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

2 Kings 24:7

And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

Lamentations 1:19

“I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.

Jeremiah 8:20

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

Jeremiah 2:36

How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Jeremiah 2:37

From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.